Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite 75-year-old Publisher William Randolph Hearst, 74-year-old Los Angeles Times Publisher Harry Chandler is the pet antipathy of West Coast liberals. Yet last week, Los Angelenos who wanted to support their own concept of a free press found themselves also supporting rock-ribbed old Harry Chandler...
...Paris, Joseph Pacreau, 34, was visiting the polar bears in the Vincennes Zoo. Because there are no bars in the Zoo, only way to see the polar bears is to peer into their pool from a steep rock bank high enough so no bear can stand on its hind legs and claw the customers. While Joseph Pacreau peered, one bear heaved itself awkwardly on to the back of another bear, got hold of Joseph Pacreau's arm, hung on till a keeper arrived and rapped it smartly on the nose...
Blue Ridge Mountaineers (Sat. 11:15 p.m., MBS) see their first cinema at Blowing Rock, N. C., say "Whew!" for the microphone...
...they were assured by Commodore R. B. Irving that they had a good chance of beating the Normandie's westbound trans-atlantic record of 3 days, 23 hr., 2 min. They did, passing the Ambrose Channel Lightship 3 days, 21 hr., 48 min. after they had left Bishop Rock, off Land's End, England. Best day's run: 790 miles...
...objections. When the Central Pacific was stopped by wild mountain country (during 1866 only 28 miles of track were laid), the rival Union Pacific was pushing rapidly across level plains, making fortunes for its owners. The partners were frantic but Crocker only added more Chinese, had them digging through rock so hard that four crews advanced only eight inches a day. When Stanford sent steam drilling equipment, Crocker refused to let it be tried...