Word: rincon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crossing from the San Francisco side, the motorist ascends a mile-long ramp up Rincon Hill, then over the world's two largest suspension bridges, stretching end-to-end for two miles to Yerba Buena ("Goat") Island. There, the highway dives for 500 ft. through the world's largest bore tunnel, 76 ft. wide, 58 ft. high. Next come the world's third largest cantilever bridge (1,400 ft.), five smaller spans, then a long trestle to the Oakland shore. Total length is eight and one quarter miles. The whole structure is strong enough to resist...
...Sperry and Nicholas Bordloise, longshoremen. Police fired at the fleeing crowd. There was a wild pounding of feet. Police followed. The crowd rallied. Another volley scattered it but Sperry and Bordloise lay filled with shotgun slugs on the sidewalk of Steuart Street. The police charge drove the strikers up Rincon Hill, on which will rest one end of the $75,000,000 Oakland Bridge. Work on the bridge stopped as the battle line approached. Up the weedgrown slopes around dilapidated shanties the police fought their way. Amid much cursing, cuffing and clubbing the strikers were finally dislodged from the summit...
...fifth commission's "admirable" result: agreement of all concerned parties to a double-span bridge from Rincon Hill in San Francisco to Goat Island (Naval training station), thence to Emeryville on the Oakland side. To pacify the Navy it was agreed that battleships should be able to pass underneath. Chief points conceded in the compromise were: 1) by San Francisco, desire to have the bridge connect with Alameda; 2) by the 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...