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Behind it is the general question of decentralization of Pacific Coast shipping. Already other towns, heartened by Stockton's battle, are planning expensive ports of their own: Sacramento, San Jose, Redwood City, California, and The Dalles, Ore. On the side of older ports are most ship line owners because of established handling facilities of their own and maintenance of present schedules at existing ports. Potent argument of shipowners against recognition of Stockton is that with calls to make at perhaps dozens of inland ports, shipping rates must certainly rise beyond anything hitherto contemplated...
...Located as it is on the largest man-made island in the world, in the very heart of glorious San Francisco Bay, bounded by the skyline of San Francisco and Oakland, the Golden Gate, the green hills of the Redwood Empire; and in the shadows of the world's two largest bridges, the Golden Gate International Exposition can hardly fail to attract either foreign or domestic exhibitors, and most certainly will not lack for attendance...
...growth of WPA projects gave Sculptor Bufano another chance. Abandoning stone, he thought of a figure of glittering stainless steel, arms upraised in benediction. He made a model of redwood and copper, shrewdly choosing Regional Director Joseph Danysh of the Federal Art Project for his model. Then the arguments were on. Even the Catholic Church was divided, Father George of the Franciscans, representing the Father Provincial of the Western United States, violently objecting that the statue was an insult to his Order, Archbishop Mitty approving...
...Redwood City, Calif., where he is wintering, Infielder Tony ("Poosh 'em up") Lazzeri of the New York Yankees filed suit for divorce, declared his wife Maye "no longer loved him," few hours later called the suit "all a big mistake...
...pine trees knew was how to sigh and moan and storm and urge Mr. Bax to deeds of instrumentation. . . . But it was so strung out that one could not help being grateful that Mr. Bax had seen only Norway pines and Scotch firs and had not got into the redwood district of California. Just a few sequoias, say those up at Wawona, might have told him the whole of Gone With the Wind...