Word: rio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year, however, is the construction of one new line which will make the 1934 total more than half again as big as that of 1933. This is the 38-mi. Dotsero Cutoff, now 85% completed. Built largely with RFC funds, it will run from Dotsero, Col. on the Denver & Rio Grande Western to Orestod (Dotsero backward) on the Denver & Salt Lake. The Dotsero Cutoff will finally put to more than nominal use the famed Moffat Tunnel just west of Denver. Commonly known as "Moffat's Folly" or "The Gateway to Nowhere," this tunnel was the life-long dream...
...Banker Moffat had spent all his money throwing the road over Rollins Pass, 11,600 ft. above sea level. Even when he got his tracks over the top, snow drifts would often force Denver & Salt Lake to shut down for weeks at a time. Now owned by Denver & Rio Grande, the road pierces the Continental Divide through the Moffat Tunnel at an elevation of only 9,000 ft., coasts gently down the western slope of the Rockies to its western terminus at Craig...
Everybody agreed that since it was financially impossible to construct the line from Craig straight through to Salt Lake (346 mi.), the next best thing was to build a short line which would connect with the parent Denver & Rio Grande, which does run to Salt Lake. It would save Denver & Rio Grande 173 mi. between the two cities. But neither parent nor child was rich and government aid was not obtained until...
...grinding of sound cameras that made it look like a Hollywood opening. Totally unable to see what the museum had to show, the guests milled slowly up & down stairs and looked at one another. Besides Soviet Ambassador Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky, they included: Mary Pickford, Otto H. Kahn, Dolores Del Rio, Leopold Stokowski, Henry Seidel Canby, Lord Duveen, Frank Sullivan, Katharine Hepburn, the young ladies of the Ballet Russe, Charles A. Lindbergh and most of the Rockefellers. Most critics went back next morning for a quieter look at the best exhibition of stage decor and costume ever held...
...lunching with Deputy NRAdministrator Boaz Walton Long. NRAdministrator Long stepped to the window, took one look at the crowd and at the tack-strewn streets, decided to postpone his inspection tour of the island. Colonel Francis Riggs, chief of the Puerto Rican police, came bumping into San Juan from Rio Piedras with 23 punctures. "This is anarchy!" he cried...