Word: pueblos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the first transcontinental trains ever to pass through Denver chufied through the Moffatt Tunnel ("Gateway to Nowhere") and on to the West Coast- two double-header freights loaded with Nebraska corn, Colorado coal, stoves, grits, lumber, hoboes. Instead of going around through Pueblo to the south or Cheyenne to the north, they bored under the Continental Divide, rattled down the Denver & Salt Lake, switched off on the new Dotsero Cutoff to Denver & Rio Grande Western's main line into Salt Lake City. Next day the Governors of Colorado and Utah, the Mayors of Denver and Salt Lake...
...from coast to coast. Connecting the United and TWA transcontinental routes in two places are Western Air Express routes, one from Cheyenne to Albuquerque and the other from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles ( ). On the former route, a new mail contract will be awarded only from Cheyenne to Pueblo. Down the Atlantic Coast, from Newark to Miami and inland from Richmond to Atlanta and Jacksonville runs the Eastern Air Transport route (X∎X∎X∎X∎X∎X∎X∎), only one to have all its old contract routes included in the new setup...
Wliooo! Wheee! Piercing siren screams roused the Conference and all Montevideo. The siren belongs to El Pueblo, newsorgan of Uruguay's Dictator-President, Dr. Gabriel Terra. When it shrieks there is urgent news. So many Montevidians rushed pell mell to see what was being chalked up on El Pueblo's bulletin board that the police had to be called out. Though it was afternoon El Pueblo, confident that no other Montevideo paper could get the story, announced with the dignity of a Dictator's newsorgan that it would print no extra, that the public would have...
...with a loss of 15,000 men (TIME, Dec. 25). To the League Commission Bolivia proposed an armistice. The Commission relayed this proposal last week to Paraguay, received a counter proposal for an eleven-day truce which Bolivia accepted. Then the Com- mission wired Dictator Terra and his El Pueblo siren shrieked...
...highbrow notions of technique, all living foreign artists and most dead ones except Rembrandt, Renoir and Franz Hals. Typical comment : "Da Vinci is the bunk - a mathematician, a subway digger." Died. Conrad E. Biehl, 67, Colorado's "glass eye king"; by his own hand (carbon monoxide gas) ; in Pueblo, Col. His world-wide glass eye clientele included a Zulu chieftain. Died. Paul Painleve, 69, thrice Premier of France, ten times Cabinet Min ister, once president of the Chamber of Deputies, distinguished scientist; after long illness; in Paris. Son of a Parisian baker, he won attention at home and abroad...