Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gold Is Where You Find It (Warner Bros.) is a Technicolor toast to the stout-hearted California farmers who in the 1870s fought off the mining crowd in the lush Sacramento Valley, saved the land for the California Fruit Growers Exchange. Like most Warner pictures, Gold Is Where You Find It contains capsules of information for the curious, sugarplums for the romantics, action for whistle-&-stomp addicts. With the footnoting style of the documentary film, it begins by sketching the change in mining technique from the pick-&-pan methods of the forty-niners to the high-pressure system...
...landslide sequence to be added to the film. But the hill refused to budge for the cameramen. Last week Nature was more cooperative. As the Warner Bros, prepared to present their film simultaneously in 200 theatres throughout the U. S., flood waters swept out over the Sacramento Valley, inundated farm lands just as the film's flood does...
Most U. S. burls come from Oregon, principally from the Willamette valley. Biggest U. S. burlman is Alfred Adam Loeb of Portland. Mr. Loeb was the first to ship burls directly to the veneer mills of Europe ten years ago. He now ships about 5,000 a year. Possibly 3,000 more are shipped by other people. Last week, as hundreds of Mr. Loeb's arboreal monstrosities lay on the docks of Portland's Oceanic Terminal, the Pacific Northwest forest experiment station announced that as many burls were exported in 1937 as in 1936, despite the fact that...
...addition to the Tennessee Valley development, the New Deal is engaged in completing a gigantic program to produce electric power (1 in the Gulf of Lower California, 2 at Bonneville Dam in Oregon, 3 at Memphis, Tennessee, 4 in North Florida, 5 at Passamaquoddy, Maine...
Round-Trip RateTO Lv. Boston $4.00 Campton, N. H. (Waterville Valley) 12:30 P.M. 4.00 Conway, N. H. 1:15 P.M. 4.00 Intervale, N. H. (Jackson-Bartlett) 1:15 P.M. 4.00 Laconia, N. H. (Gilford) 12:30 P.M. 4.50 Lancaster, N. H. 12:30 P.M. 4.00 Lincoln, N. H. (Franconia Notch) 12:30 P.M. 4.00 Lisbon, N. H. 12:30 P.M. 4.00 Littleton, N. H. (Franconia) 12:30 P.M. 4.00 Mt. Whittier, N. H. (Tamworth Region) 1:15 P.M. 4.00 North Conway, N. H. 1:15 P.M. 4.00 North Woodstock, N. H. 12:30 P.M. 4.00 Plymouth...