Word: sacramento
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press was called in. For an hour, as photographers' flash bulbs flared, he answered questions, chain-smoking, gesturing and wriggling in familiar campaign fashion. The most important news for California: 1) that he was going to have breakfast with Governor Warren at the executive mansion in Sacramento; 2) that he was studying the California Presidential primary...
Room Service. In Sacramento, jail authorities finally discovered how Mrs. Dale Thrapp had got high without leaving her cell: a visitor had funneled drinks into Mrs. Thrapp through a small hole in the door...
Henceforth, even for coaches S.P. will re quire reservations, which must be made in person, in advance. (Trains on the San Francisco peninsula and between the San Francisco Bay region and Sacramento were excepted.) Tickets must be purchased before reservations can be made. Servicemen will be given preference. As a result the number of passengers will be limited on each train; many a citizen will have to stay home...
Bricks and Stuff. Pleased with the camouflage job, the Government asked F. & K. to turn out 300,000 adobe bricks to build bomb shelters, protective blast walls around important installations. Although the firm had never made a brick, it took over a Sacramento brickyard, finished the contract in jig time, is now building up a stockpile. The Government next wanted barracks and housing projects painted. F. & K. painted them. Fortnight ago President Kleiser and Vice President Foster got together in their San Francisco offices, rosily viewed the balance sheet. For the year ended March 31, gross income...
Shasta is larger than Boulder Dam, second in all the world only to Grand Coulee in Washington. Its whirling turbines will feed power through the West. Its huge bulk-580 ft. thick, more than 560 ft. high, 3,500 ft. long-will back water 35 miles up the Sacramento, Pit and McCloud rivers. Along with the Friant Reservoir on the San Joaquin River, this man-made great lake will irrigate 1,000,000 California acres which would otherwise be largely desert...