Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...working capital, and the Government is expected to loan $5,000,000 or more for rehabilitation. Last week the new management was named. Besides Ripley, as chairman, it includes as president bald, Annapolis-educated Industrial Engineer James Reed, who managed construction of San Francisco's $35,000,000 Golden Gate Bridge, ex-Navy aircraft procurement chief Commander Ralph D. Weyerbacher as vice president and general manager, and H. Birchard Taylor, great grandson of William Cramp, as vice president...
Johnny turns out to be dodging the law for an old murder charge. His flight dumps him into the outwardly grim but inwardly golden presence of Hap O'Connor (Pat O'Brien), a straw boss in charge of a gang of roughnecks who shuttle from field to field drilling wells. When Johnny saves Hap's life they become friends, exchange cigarets, seldom smile. Hap's girl Linda (Frances Farmer) hates Johnny because he calls her "freckle nose," but that is only a prelude to romance. Hap turns on Johnny for pilfering Linda, but the triangle...
Down in Tigertown Tad Wieman is assembling the strongest Princeton team since the golden days of Fritz Crisler. The passing combination of Allerdice to Stanley will be one of the best in the land and will test the Harvard aerial defenses to the limit...
...Golden Gate Exposition laid this year's plans on the modest basis of 4,000,000 visitors for the season. Last week the 4,000,000th visitor paid his way in, six weeks before closing. By that time the fair should have 6,000,000 attendance, a profit of $1,500,000 or more against last year's loss of $4,166,000. Of Treasure Island's original backers, 61% chose to be paid off last year at 35? on the dollar. The 39% who stayed may well end 1940 with 90? on the dollar...
...reopened under new management, new policies. Banker Harvey Dow Gibson took over New York's World's Fair of 1940, cut prices and stressed "Fun!! Fun!! Fun!!" at Flushing Flats. Chamber of Commerce President Marshall Dill and Vice President William Monahan took over San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition, cut prices and sloganed: "Let's have a good time" at Treasure Island. Last week the Dill slogan looked a little better than the Gibson...