Word: oaklanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Czechoslovakian Roderick Menzel. In the most startling upset of the week, Wilmer Allison lost to Australia's unorthodox Vivian McGrath in the first round. After seven days of play, the only U. S. player left in the men's singles was red-haired Donald Budge of Oakland, Calif. Experts agreed that England's Fred Perry, last year's champion, still had the best chance...
...longest bridge cannot compare in size or expense with the great bridges of the U. S. Half the length of the Queensboro Bridge in Manhattan, it cost tiny Denmark $8,000,000, or slightly more than has been set aside to build the approaches to the great San Francisco-Oakland bridge...
Whistles shrilled, bands blared, crowds cheered, flags waved, aircraft soared, cannon boomed, lightning flashed from the heavens across the Potomac. The sun, which had been playing hide-&-seek all day, suddenly shone forth brilliantly. Down the gangplank of the barkentine icebreaker Bear of Oakland, leading his men in impressive single file, marched Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, retired, resplendent in white uniform, to revisit the U. S. for the first time in nearly two years...
...California crews won the Olympic championship in 1928 and 1932 but this year Washington's Coach Al Ulbrickson felt sure of eight sophomores he had retained as a unit from last year's powerful freshman boat. Said he, before the boats lined up last week on Oakland Estuary: "This is potentially the greatest crew I ever coached...
...Douglas, on its last flight, successfully made contact with the Matson liner Mariposa 400 mi. at sea, flew back to Oakland. Promptly Major Snow telegraphed his resignation to Washington. Director Vidal accepted it without comment...