Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco, Calif...
Last week too Jesse L. Lasky's original barn studio in Hollywood, Calif., was torn down. It gave him -a onetime San Francisco newspaperman, Alaskan goldhunter, Hawaiian bandsman-his great opportunity towards wealth 12 years...
John Augustus Rodgers, San Francisco-Honolulu flyer Master of Aeronautical Science
...young Cornelius Vanderbilt IV string of newspapers was pretty well wrecked. About two months ago (TIME, May 10), the younger Vanderbilt was forced to asknowledge publicly that he was in financial difficulties and to call for aid-$300,000-to keep his three papers running. Soon afterwards his San Francisco paper, the Illustrated Herald, suspended publication, and his Los Angeles paper, the Illustrated News, went into receivership. Last week his Miami paper, the Illustrated Tab, failed to appear. The owner of its offices had taken legal measures to oust it for failure to pay rent. The same day that word...
...main stem of the Western Pacific runs 927 miles from San Francisco to Salt Lake City.* It was once, financially, a hazardous railroad, an iron hope of the executors of the estate of Jay Gould for making a coast to coast system out of the Gould holdings. In the rocky country past Ogden, Utah, the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific dominated; if the Goulds wanted a new road they would have to build one over the mountains. The plan cost money-so much that the Gould roads collapsed and passed into the control of the Equitable Trust Co. Alvin...