Word: rincon
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...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...