Word: summer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition opened last February, it figured to break even if it could lock 24,000,000 admissions in a ten month run. Last week after nearly four months, it had clocked 3,600,000. Although summer, with its crowds, is coming, the Exposition, which has averaged 32,000 visitors a day in the past, would have to almost quadruple daily attendance to hit 24,000,000-which is too much even for California optimism. Mired in debts, the Exposition even acknowledged last week to owing the city of San Francisco four months...
...Spain, diplomats have moved from Burgos, which Spaniards claim is Spain's hottest spot in summer and coldest in winter, to San Sebastián, on the Bay of Biscay, and Generalissimo Franco planned to pass the summer in a new seaside home presented to him by the nation near his birthplace at El Ferrol, in Galicia, recently renamed El Ferrol del Caudillo in his honor...
...about 250 Spanish munitions workers, and giving employment to an average of 75. Two shiploads of 1,000 refugees apiece have gone from France to Mexico, and a third ship carrying several thousand is scheduled to leave this week. Mexico expects to take about 20,000 Spanish refugees this summer. The Basques have also chartered a ship to take their refugees to Mexico, Colombia and Chile...
Everything is quiet and hot. Figures across the street are walking leisurely. The leaves are still. There's no ripple on the grass. The sun is hot on the pavement. Men are wearing white shirts. It's summer! Vag eaunters across the Yard admiring the seasonal phenomenon, the gregness, the aims,--even Sever Hall. He walks slowly. There's no rush, no appointments, no assignments, not for three and a half months. He lights a cigarette, lets the smoke curl out of his mouth and hang in mid air motionless. No sir, no one could get him to walk fast...
...Lincoln was spotlighted during production by a restraining suit. Robert Emmet Sherwood and his partners in Playwrights Producing Co. Inc. filed the suit on the ground that there was more than coincidence in the similarity in name to Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Broadway hit to be filmed this summer with Raymond Massey). Darryl Zanuck parried that by producing a memo proving that Lincoln was in his thoughts as far back...