Word: goldens
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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...
...Journal of the American Medical Association, which voices professional contempt for Macfaddism, commented: "Possibly . . . this is just a start and we may later find the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce considering the question of abandoning the name of 'Golden Gate' for 'Albert Abrams Bay.' Los Angeles businessmen might very properly recommend changing the name of Santa Monica Mountains to the 'I-on-a-co Mountains' in honor of their late-lamented citizen, Gaylord Wilshire. The conception has infinite possibilities. Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga might readily be called 'Mount Cardui,' while Nahant...
...made from 20% to 75% of weight of ordinary concrete. Authorities expect it to reduce by almost one-fourth the weight of steel necessary to support a building. Aerocrete floors have been put in a new addition to Bethlehem Steel Corp. at Bethlehem, Pa. and in the Golden Hill Building, Manhattan...
...Peacock Throne." The only object of Persian art at all familiar to average occidentals is the famed throne upon which sit Persia's Shahs. And this came from India, not Persia. Built in the reign of Shah Jahan (1627-58) in India's "golden age of architecture," it appeared in Persia after the sack of Delhi by Nadir Shah in 1738. Designer is thought to have been Ustad Isa, reputed creator of the Taj Mahal. Before it was stripped of most of its appurtenances, silver steps led up to the throne proper, a peacock tail canopy overspread...
...Price, opposing Representative Reece in the G. O. P. primary, loudly resented the President's "intrusion." declared: "The time hasn't come when any man, before offering himself for office, must make a pilgrimage to the distant shrine of the great political boss and humbly climb up the golden stairway to the throne and kiss his majesty's great...