Word: sacramento
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing was strangely missing: one issue which by all historical precedents should have loomed large if not largest in the campaign was at least half-forgotten. At Amarillo, Tex. last week and at Sacramento, Calif. Candidate Willkie told Democrats they had to choose between the tradition of voting for their party and the tradition against a third term. But the low ebb of public attention to the third-term issue was exemplified by hearings held in Washington on Senator Burke's proposed Constitutional amendment for a single, six-year Presidential term: so meagre was the audience that the hearings...
Thrifty Christ Kutras ran a Greek restaurant at Redding in California's deep, fertile Sacramento Valley. He put his profits into real estate outside of town. When construction began in 1938 on the $36,000,000 Shasta Dam, devised to stabilize Sacramento Valley's water supply, engineers built a ten-mile belt line to convey 10,000,000 cubic yards of gravel to the world's No. 2 dam. For their gravel pit they chose Christ Kutras' tract of land...
...whisking the gravel to Shasta? As the first gravel moved over the conveyor last week a $30,291 gold-reduction plant (built by Columbia Construction Co.) was nearing completion. The deal: Christ to split the profits, if any, with Columbia after interest, plant and production costs. Oldtimers, recalling that Sacramento is part of the motherlode country, figured that the works might gross some...
...migrants began to come early in Depression. They were Okies. They swarmed over the State in vast tidal waves, drawn by reports of men needed for the cantaloupe harvest in the Imperial Valley, foe cotton picking in the San Joaquin Valley, for the asparagus and celery of the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta...
Formerly in service with Signal Corps of Russian Army in Persia, 1915-1917, Hamadan billet. Sacramento, Calif...