Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President pressed a button, flashing a green light that opened San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge...
...week's end, accepting an honorary degree Doctor of Public Service) from Oglethorpe University (Atlanta), Producer Golden unburdened himself of some sentiments about his fellow producers which he had failed to give the convention...
They opened another bridge in California last week. At 6 a. m. when a foghorn snorted, 18.000 people started a mass dash, each eager to be first across the Golden Gate between San Francisco and the Marin County mainland. By nightfall 178,000 had crossed on foot and each apparently had been first in "one way or another. Sprinter Donald Bryant was first man across. Esther & Ann Bullard were first twins. Carmen & Minnie Perez were first skaters. Florentine Calegari was first on stilts. A Scottie was first dog. Police rushed to aid one woman staggering along with her tongue...
Reason for all this fuss, aside from California's surpassing exuberance, was that the bridge was the world's greatest by practically every measurement-length of span, height, difficulty of achievement. San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge was conceived 20 years ago by Engineer Joseph Baermann ("Colossus of Roads'') Strauss and finally completed at a cost of eleven lives...
...Golden Gate International Exposition San Francisco, Calif...