Word: franciscos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Ben Fleigelmann of Brooklyn thought he had to do to make that trip was join the U. S. Army Air Corps and get assigned to Luke Field, Hawaii. In a high moment last November, Mechanic Fleigelmann decided to fly back 2,400 miles to San Francisco in a Douglas B18 bomber, which can fly 2,000 miles with a full load and the usual crew of six experienced men. Inasmuch as Private Fleigelmann was not even one experienced flier, he was lucky to crawl out of the wreckage in a pineapple patch five miles from Luke Field...
Early this week Loyalist resistance in northern Catalonia collapsed, and in a swift advance northward from Gerona the Rebel Armies of Generalissimo Francisco Franco occupied Figueras, for eleven days the fourth capital of Loyalist Spain. As last as their transport could keep up with them, they bore down on the frontier towns of Port-Bou, La Junquera and Puigcerda. It was only a matter of hours before the Generalissimo would wipe out the only remaining Loyalist territory in northern Spain and be master of the Spanish side of the French-Spanish frontier from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean...
...solemn assurance that the paintings remain forever the property of Spain, no matter what government is finally installed in Spain. Particularly did Minister Alvarez del Vayo want to make sure that the art would not fall into Italy's or Germany's hands. Finally, Generalissimo Francisco Franco was implored not to bomb the roads over which the-treasures were being moved. The General's aviators, who have never hesitated to blast women and children, complied. Directors of the Paris Louvre and the London National Gallery accompanied the paintings on their way to final safety...
...Francisco should presently become as distinguished for its arts as for its setting, San Franciscans would owe many thanks to WPA. Already hopeful of this, San Francisco WPA officials were pleased as Punch last week at the dedication of one of the most sophisticated WPA building jobs in the U. S.-a new, $1,500,000 Aquatic Park overlooking the Golden Gate...
...last two years, large, free-speaking Hilaire Hiler has been in San Francisco, working mostly on the Aquatic Park murals. Those in the central lounge he designed and mainly executed himself. Their subject is the submerged continents of Mu and Atlantis in the green depths of the sea. Swimming and floating everywhere are large, brilliantly colored fish, mythical sea creatures, and tremendously enlarged microorganisms symbolizing the oceanic origin of life. Shafts of sunlight falling through the water work sea changes of color...