Word: rio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Robert Woolsey, 49, of the cinema comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey (Rio Rita, The Cuckoos, Half Shot at Sunrise); of kidney disease; at Malibu Beach, Calif...
Colorado's boyish Governor Teller Ammons bet Texas' boyish Governor James V. (for nothing) Allred that the University of Colorado would whip Texas' Rice Institute in a football game last January. The stakes: Pike's Peak v. Big Bend State Park on the Rio Grande. Rice won. So last week the two Governors motored to the top of Pike's Peak, which Governor Ammons thereupon handed over to Governor Allred. Governor Allred raised the Texas flag...
...miles of road, a main line running from Oakland Mole, Calif. to Salt Lake City and from Keddie to Bieber, Calif., where it connects with the Great Northern And Western Pacific's holding company, Western Pacific R. R. Corp., has a half interest in Denver & Rio Grande Western. It thus forms a link in a direct route from St. Louis to the Pacific...
...School of Business Administration, then, ten years ago, learned to fly and started out to be a flying insurance man. Depression I drove him out of insurance, and he tried selling airplanes. For the next several years he flew from coast to coast, from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande, piling up flying hours and getting a comprehensive view of private flying such as few short-hop and Sunday fliers get. Sometimes selling several ships a month, but more often finding territories soured on flying because of local accidents, he finally quit and started a flying school. Then this...
...State during the late 19th Century and early 20th were former bad men who had renounced their evil ways and reformed. To many a Westerner, the swashbuckling hold-up man who confined his depredations mainly to big banks and railroads was at least half hero. South of the Rio Grande the distinction between bandits and "liberators" has run even thinner. Last week, noted Mexican Bandit Enrique Rodríguez, nicknamed El Tallarin ("The Noodle"), surrendered to Governor Elpidio Perdomama of Morelos. Taken before military authorities at Mexico City, "The Noodle" explained that the assaults attributed to him over four States...