Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inspection to Virginia & Truckce Railway paid by Ogden Livingston Mills and Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Hoover (TIME, April 10), it was announced last week after a meeting of the road's directors that Mr. Mills had purchased a controlling interest in the road. Built (to connect the Comstock silver lode with Reno) in 1869 by Darius Ogden Mills, grandfather of the present owner, Virginia & Truckee was controlled in recent years by the Mills and Sharon estates of San Francisco. Rising silver prices, discovery of a new lode at Virginia City have made prospects of the road look up; its purchase...
Julia Newberry was born with a good-sized silver spoon in her good-sized mouth. When her father died he left his wife and two daughters so well off that they could easily afford $60,000 to make over their town house into what everyone said was "the handsomest house in Chicago." The hall was 70 ft. long, and Julia had her own "studio." with a private staircase. They could also afford to leave it for summers in Richfield Springs, N. Y., visits to Utica, Manhattan, St. Augustine, Fla., extended grand tours abroad. Their U. S. travels were of course...
...Silver Cord (RKO). If there is one thing which U. S. cinemaddicts have been taught to consider wholesome, if not sacred, it is Mother Love. The producers of this picture therefore deserve credit for their courage. The Silver Cord is a searching and bitter character study of a woman whose exaggerated affection for her children has made weaklings of them and a monster of herself. Mrs. Phelps (Laura Hope Crews) badgers one of her sons (Eric Linden) into breaking his engagement on the ground that his fianceé (Frances Dee) does not love him enough. The girl tries to commit...
...realm of conjecture." Meanwhile the joint Congressional committee of investigation went to Akron to begin hearings. Sunnyvale, Forty miles south of San Francisco in the orchard land of the Santa Clara Valley, hard by Herbert Hoover's Palo Alto, is a field of pure gold with a silver mound in the centre. The gold is a carpet of California poppies. The silver is the shimmering aluminum paint of an airship dock, second in size only to the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock at Akron. The whole is Sunnyvale, newly completed Naval airship base for the Pacific Coast. Last week Sunnyvale...
...Three miles from Akron is Wingfoot Lake, home base of Goodyear's fleet of baby blimps. There last week a silver bubble floated in the sky. small enough to be an egg of the mammoth Macon, yet bigger than any nonrigid airship heretofore built in the U. S. The bubble was the TC-13, just built by Goodyear for the Army, and being test-flown prior to her maiden flight to her station at Langley Field. Va. The TC-13 is 200 ft. long. Beneath her belly she carries a 40-ft. control car equipped with four folding bunks...