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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finally told. In the rubble where they were digging, one of the men turned up a $20 gold piece. Another found a diamond stud. Coins, baubles, silverware were discovered-to an estimated value of $20,000 before the vein was worked out. The men were digging on a site that had been filled in with debris from the San Francisco fire-earthquake...
...building and fishing, smelted copper and manufactured such copper implements as spearheads, fishhooks, nails. Some of the flues in the ancient smelter are still intact, and the north wind causes a strong draft through them. Dr. Glueck believes the necessity for such a natural draft was the reason this site was chosen for smelting...
Disney,*Okla., a string of shacks and saloons thrown up on the site of PWA's $20,000,000 Grand River Dam, last week held its first mayoralty election. Candidates were a sad-eyed grocer named Mrs. Vera Silar, who stood for law & order, and a buxom ex-cowgirl named Billy Baker, who stood for fun & frolic. Idea was to give each boss woman 30 days to try out her ideas, then incorporate under whichever regime Disney liked best. When Disney's Commercial Club tried to limit the ballot to property owners, dam hands rebelled, gave Cowgirl Baker...
Interest in the Senate hearings was so slight, however, that Senator Bone was the only member of his subcommittee present. Undaunted, Dennis Chavez, whom Co-Sponsor William Gibbs McAdoo credits with originating the bill, emphasized the importance of San Diego as the station site. He explained that San Diego would click with Latin-American audiences on account of its Spanish name, that a station at the San Diego Naval Base would be useful to the Navy...
...installed them with other medievaluables in a gallery next to his studio. In 1925 John D. Rockefeller Jr. bought this collection for $600,000, presented it to the Metropolitan Museum, added gifts of his own. When he gave Fort Tryon Park to the City in 1930, he reserved a site for the new $2,500,000 museum...