Word: straitness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vancouver is a boom city as civic-conscious as the U. S. cities across the border. Fed, like them, by lumber, mines, wheat and fish, mainland Vancouver has grown fast, while older snobbish Victoria on Vancouver Island across the Strait of Georgia has hugged its reputation as "a little bit of England on the shores of the Pacific." In 1885, when the Canadian Pacific Railway reached the coast, insular Victoria looked down on the brawling mill town of Gastown, named for a saloonkeeper, "Gassy Jack" Deighton. To the rage of Victoria's aristocrats, Canadian Pacific officials renamed Gastown Vancouver...
Magnin's customers are the richest and swankest between the Gulf of California and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Four-fifths of them run charge accounts, and, on Magnin's balance sheet, customer accounts are nearly three times as large as inventory and amount to 45% of all assets. But Magnin's has been in the red only twice-in 1932 and in 1906, the year of the San Francisco earthquake-fire when merchandising activities had to be carried on in the Magnin house...
Into the wide blue harbor of Manila last week slid the U. S. destroyer Peary. Aboard her were 52 survivors of the wrecked British freighter Silverhazel which, bound out of San Francisco for Singapore and Bombay, had gone down with a loss of four lives in San Bernardino Strait, 350 mi. southwest of the Philippine capital...
...sights and smells alternate with obscure adolescent fits of temper and weeping. Most of Josephine Johnson's farm tales are no more than well-written, undergraduate, descriptive essays, but in the best of them the real torments of hard times and hunger seem to struggle to escape the strait jacket of her fluent and mannered prose. Among the 22 stories in Winter Orchard...
Last May, two Martinez, Calif. Mexicans named Anacleto Torres and Areo Cabrero, both section hands on the Southern Pacific Lines, set out to celebrate Memorial Day. In the course of the celebration, Anacleto shot Areo twice, bashed in his head with an ax, threw him into Carquinez Strait at the top of San Francisco Bay. Anacleto then confided the murder to two friends, who promptly informed the police. However, it proved to be one thing to arrest Anacleto and another to make him confess. For two weeks the moody mozo denied everything...