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Under the departmental heading LIFE on the American Newsfront, was depicted the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Superimposed on this aerial view was what no camera can yet show: The architect's drawing of the island which is to be built for the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair. Other featured items of picture-news were Louisiana's "Moses" foundling; the spectacular death of Minnesota's Dr. Joseph Graham Mayo, who drove his automobile up a railroad track; awards for diction and genius, respectively, to Actress Ina Claire and Playwright Eugene O'Neill...
...receipt of a prospectus from the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Celebration Committee advising of the sale of 100,000 one-half dollar coins specially coined to commemorate the opening of the new bridge. I am to be permitted to purchase a limited number of these coins at the very special price of $1.65 each, the premiums on the coins to be used to defray part of the expenses of the celebration...
There is nothing new about private committees distributing U. S. commemorative coins at a price above face value. Congress authorized the first such issue in 1892 for the Columbian Exposition, provided for 100,000 coins to be minted for the 1937 San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Celebration. The commemorative half dollar displays on one side a bear (Monarch II. Golden Gate Park grizzly), on the reverse side the bridge. Designer: Jacques Schnier...
...America in this generation." Starting with Albany, N. Y. last week, preaching teams of at least ten men and women will spend four days in the following communities: Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Detroit, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Louisville. St. Louis, Cleveland, Des Moines, Omaha, Billings, Mont., Seattle, Vancouver, Portland, Ore., San Francisco-Oakland, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Washington, Raleigh, Philadelphia, Boston, winding up with a multitudinous evangelical mass meeting in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden the second week of December...
...promontory 40 mi. long, San Francisco has always been cut off from direct connection with the north by the Golden Gate, with the east by San Francisco Bay. Travelers in either direction have had the choice of circling far to the south around the bottom of the bay or crossing it on one of four ferry lines. Last week the end of this ancient inconvenience came closer when workmen hoisted a 50-ft. eyebar from a barge below, finally joined the two halves of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, linked San Francisco to the east for the first time...