Word: gateways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From June 15 to September 15 this year, 50,000 people will visit Glacier, 150,000 will see Yellowstone. More than twice that many will go to the nation's most popular park, Yosemite, where Director Cammerer was due this week. Main gateway to the Yosemite is Merced, in central California. Pert, goodlooking college boys drive the buses and co-eds perform cheerfully but inexpertly as waitresses. Whopping groves of Sequoia gigantea help prepare you for the first glimpse of Yosemite Valley. Because it is more conceivable, less Dantesque than the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, it is perhaps...
...m.p.h. The track is graded at 45° on the turns, 20° on the short straightaways, flat on the stretches. The only attempt to improve it since it was built was just before this year's race when bricks were re-laid at Gateway Leap, the name of the bump on the southwest turn. Re-paving failed to eliminate the bump. Drivers say the track is getting rougher. Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, oldtime race driver who manages the Speedway, says it is smoothing out from yearly traffic. The Automobile Club of Michigan last week called for a change: "Three...
Ideal for such fighting is the ancient Chinese city of Shanhaikwan, the perfect corner. Surrounded by its own 40-ft. wall and backed by China's Great Wall, Shanhaikwan is a 20th Century Thermopylae, the gateway defending China proper from Manchurian invaders. Last week several thousand Chinese soldiers, armed chiefly with old-style rifles, were ordered to defend Shanhaikwan against the simultaneous assaults of Japanese artillery (19 pieces), Japanese whippet tanks, Japanese machine gun crews, Japanese bombing planes (seven) and Japanese destroyers (two) which fired in high, wide, erratic fashion from their anchorage six miles away in the Gulf...
...Gateway. A receiver was appointed last week for the 1,030-mi. Wisconsin Central Railway. The line is controlled and leased by the Soo System (Minneapolis St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie) which in turn is controlled by Canadian Pacific Railway Co. Its tracks run from Chicago to Minneapolis, Duluth, Oshkosh, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, forming an important U. S. gateway for the C. P. R. The Wisconsin Central has $44,000,000 worth of bonds outstanding, has earned interest on them but twice in the past decade...
...Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who expressed these sentiments when he revived the Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, had been in Los Angeles last week he would have seen them inscribed in huge letters on the inner wall of the main gateway of Los Angeles Olympic Stadium. He would have seen also a crowd of 105,000 flowing in orderly fashion into a stadium which contained 30 miles of seats and cost $1,700,000. A lover of the grandiloquent, the ceremonious. Baron de Coubertin would have been charmed by the gay, prodigious pageant of band-music, homing-pigeons, hymns...