Word: tacoma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lmportant cities in the district are: Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Kansas City, Omaha, Des Moines, Butte, Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma...
Polar Flyer Richard Evelyn Byrd: "A letter which has followed me over the U. S. since May 15 has reached me. It contained an odd request from one E. R. Davis, advertising man of Tacoma, Wash., for an exclusive contract to erect signs at the North Pole. He offered to pay for this right $1,000 per annum, from the date he constructed his first sign there. I signed the contract instantly, and returned it to Mr. Davis. What manner of signs he may erect if from a bedroom 'hung with soft draperies and filled with cushioned chairs...
...buying or leasing land that he finds his greatest difficulty. Realtors and mortgage underwriters dash at his office in Manhattan with flashing descriptions of their land values. Let Mr. Statler promise to build a hotel anywhere from Trenton to Tacoma. they will see that it is financed. They do not realize that he finances his new hotels from the operating profits of his old, and that, if he were to go to public financing, humanitarian that he is, he would want to be certain that not only were promoters prosperous and bondholders satisfied, but also that preferred shareholders received their...
...Knopf ($2.50). The satisfying quality of this autobiogaphical chunk of Americana is that calm matter-of-factness which characterized the same author's chronicle of the great logger, Paul Bunyan. "Appanoose Jimmie" Stevens (changed to Turner in these pages), aged about 35, now lives with his parents in Tacoma, Wash., and, though he contributes successfully to the American Mercury, he has not yet succumbed to the green mists that often steam up from pages of print to obscure a new writer's picture of himself. Appanoose is still at heart the hobo team-hand that he labored...
...afternoon President Coolidge pressed a miniature gold spike into a peculiar contrivance; the two Senators and the five Representatives from the state of Washington stood by in rapt attention; almost instantaneously wheels began to go around in a municipal power plant at Tacoma, Wash. Next day Mrs. Coolidge took up a trowel and smeared a great big stone all over with mortar?not just the usual lady-like dab?and the Y. W. C. A. then had laid the cornerstone of their new building in Washington...