Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capstone to the Golden Gloves Boxing tournaments run by newspapers in three U. S. cities, the New York Daily News last week staged in Yankee Stadium its third international meet between selected U. S. Golden Glovers and eleven topnotch Italian amateurs. Cabled Il Duce: "Be tenacious, sporty and sprightly. . . ." In flocked some 55,000 fight fans, an estimated 70% of them Italian, began booing when Gavino Matta, Italy's flyweight champion, lost the second bout on the program to pint-sized Negro Bobby Carroll of Trenton. Only knockout of the evening was scored by Willie Smith, Harlem featherweight...
...Southern California it is bad enough that the northern part of the State has two great bridges, one across the Bay, the other across the Golden Gate, lately opened with two gigantic fiestas (TIME, Nov. 23 & June 7). For Southern California it is worse that it contains a bridge which has made a lot of horrid news- Pasadena's notorious "suicide bridge," the long, aqueduct-like structure spanning 158½-ft.-deep Arroyo Seco in which squats the Rose Bowl. According to local legend, when this bridge was built in 1912, several workmen were buried alive in the concrete...
When Joe Strauss offered his plans to bridge the Golden Gate's mile of surging tidal currents, everybody laughed. After the California Legislature authorized a Bridge District with power to build the bridge, it took six years of legal battle before the U. S. Supreme Court permitted it to proceed. The War Department debated a year before giving its permission, fearing that destruction of the bridge during a war would cork the harbor. Shipping interests fought it bitterly and the Government finally imposed a high-tide clearance 100 ft. higher than Brooklyn Bridge's. The PWA refused...
...line without harm. When the sun expands the steel, the towers will lean several feet, the two 36½-in. cables will lengthen 16 ft. Greatest stress of all that the bridge may have to meet is an earthquake. Only six miles away and parallel to the Golden Gate Bridge is the San Andreas Fault, whose 22-ft. shift in 1906 leveled San Francisco. The question which has agitated Californians more than any other is: What will happen to the Bridge if another 'quake comes...
...Remarkable in being built completely without Federal financial aid, the Golden Gate Bridge will repay its bondholders by tolls like those on San Francisco's other great bridge across the bay to Oakland. Last week, after six months' operation, 4,408,092 vehicles had crossed the Bay Bridge, yielding tolls of $2,575,500. Traffic has been so much greater than expected that the toll was cut from...