Word: scenically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright, sun-browned widow with four grown children. Twenty years ago she moved to California's Mojave Desert from New Mexico, arriving with "a can of beans, a loaf of bread but no butter." She owns a patch of mining territory 27 miles north of Mojave, near wild, scenic Red Rock Canyon. Her claim to this land was recently in litigation, was cleared a few weeks ago after the case reached the California Supreme Court. Last week it looked as though Mrs. Bishop's troubles were over. Newsstories from Southern California made it appear that Mrs. Josie Bishop...
...year-old Dr. John Lorenzo Dow Roberts, who settled in Monterey 40 years ago. Many of his patients lived along the rugged coastal mountains reached only by difficult trails. Riding through this virgin terrain. Dr. Roberts grew to love its scrawny cypress, bosky gorges,, tall redwoods, dreamed of a scenic highway. Last week after 20 years of battling legislative opponents and tough engineering problems, Dr. Roberts finally saw his highway opened, a 139-mi. oiled string twined around the long fingers of the coastal mountains. The road reaches from arty Carmel-by-the-Sea down to William Randolph Hearst...
Californians have always tried to swipe some scenic beauty of ours and place it in their own State "where it never rains but dense fogs sometimes wash out two or three bridges...
Tsar Kahane's appointment coincided auspiciously last week with the conclusion of Hollywood's most troublesome recent labor difficulties when, after six weeks of picketing and bickering, the strike of painters and scenic artists (TIME, June 14) approached settlement. Pending final wage adjustments, the strikers last week returned to work...
...each studio gate. On the same day that the actors began working under their new scale, Federal Labor Conciliator Edward A. Fitzgerald arranged a compromise between leaders of the striking group and its rival, the International Alliance of Theatrical & Stage Employes. Basis of the Fitzgerald compromise was that scenic artists and painters, retaining affiliation with the International Brotherhood of Painters got a 10% raise, admission to the union shop pact with producers; make-up artists and hairdressers were placed under jurisdiction of the I. A. T. S. E. and would get a 10% raise...