Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy Department, fear that a possible enemy air force might bomb the bridge, bottle up a U. S. fleet in the Bay. Last week the War Department approved plans for another, 8,500 ft. bridge, with the longest single span in the world, to cross the famed Golden Gate from Fort Point in the Presidio of San Francisco to Lime Point on the Marin side...
...limousine collided with a small two-seater at the gate of London's Hyde Park. Out of the limousine jumped King Alfonso XIII of Spain, unhurt by flying glass. He shook hands with the young woman driver of the two-seater, handed his card to a police inspector, got back into the limousine, sped on to Bucking ham Palace, arrived punctually for lunch with King George & Queen Mary...
Sirs: Rumors I have heard several times in North Dakota that President Hoover has a ranch in Stockton, Calif. On the gate is a sign-no white men employed. I would like to know very much if this is true, or just propaganda. HENRY SCHIPPER...
...lines for their week's vaudeville engagement, to try and reckon their rewards. Having reduced their expectations from $200,000 to half that sum, the Hunter family last week could count about $25,500 in hand: from an oil company, $10,000; radio. $7,000; field gate receipts, $5,000; vaudeville, $2,000; instrument makers...
...swarmed around. Ropes and advice were thrown to the swimming bull, who submerged when capture seemed near, to come up snorting, blowing and swimming further away. After one such disappearance the pursuers gave the animal up, thought it had drowned. Hours later, a fisherman inbound off Sea Gate, some seven miles from the bull's dive, beheld a horned creature swimming out to sea with the tide. The fisherman approached, threw an anchor rope, caught and towed the beast, still belligerent, to shallow water at Coney Island. To get the animal into an S. P. C. A. ambulance required...