Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Major General Eli Kelley Cole, 61, Commandant of the Marine Corps, Department of the Pacific; in San Francisco...
...Weather Bureau began functioning last week to protect flying all the way across the continent. In a 400-mi. wide strip from Los Angeles to San Francisco to New York, 60 weather reporting stations have been organized. Day and night they report local meteorological conditions to collecting centres at Cleveland, Omaha, Salt Lake City, San Francisco. From these centres, every three hours, day and night, consolidated weather information on wind direction and velocity, temperature, dew point, air pressure, clouds, is broadcast to passing planes...
...Francisco's season began last fortnight, in San Mateo's cool Woodland Theatre. At eight Sunday concerts, five eminent conductors-Bernardino Molinari, Alfred Hertz, Eugene Goossens, Ernest Bloch, Bruno Walter-will in turn lead the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra...
...peer murderer and runs away from him with a peer explorer is told partly in pictures but principally in words English, French, Hindu, Indian, Chinese. It is played by an orchestra, on reeds, on drums and a solo saxophone. It shows settings of the Khyber Pass, London, San Francisco, the Sudanese desert. It records the whirr of airplane propellers and another noise which sounds a good deal the same but is only camel-neighing. It contains love scenes, whiskey-drinking, and such lines as ''We are two dots in the loneliness" and "The night by the oasis when...
...Francisco...