Word: francisco-oakland
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have finished last in the National Hockey League for five straight years, regularly outdraw the Boston Celtics, who have won seven straight National Basketball Association championships. So the N.H.L. decided last week to expand from six to twelve teams, granting new franchises to Los Angeles, St. Louis, San Francisco-Oakland, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh...
...very proud and pleased to see a picture of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, designated by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The picture only shows the eastern approach. The enclosed picture shows the entire structure [see cut]. We in California appreciate the recognition given to this bridge...
Kaiser and Howard will make a fabulous team. Kaiser and his men, who helped put up Grand Coulee Dam (largest in the world), Boulder and Bonneville dams, the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge (longest in the world), are natural-born nose thumbers at nature...
Dynamic Engineer Kaiser does not recognize nature's other obstacles any more than he kowtows to time. He has headed companies which helped build the Grand Coulee Dam (largest in the world), the Boulder and Bonneville dams, the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge (longest in the world). When slides threatened to hold up work at Coulee, he froze a hillside solid to keep it in place. At Shasta Dam, which he is now building in northern California, he ran a ten-mile conveyor belt smack over a mountain when railroads refused to run a spur to his construction camp...
Died. Wilbur Neil Burkhardt, 50, crusading editor of the Scripps-Howard San Francisco News; of injuries received when he jumped from the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge; in San Francisco...