Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Murphy to agree provided it can become a going concern again, started reorganizing to open its moldy Cramp's yard in Philadelphia. On the west coast, where last spring the U. S. Navy had tried unsuccessfully to buy Bethlehem Steel's Hunters Point Drydock in San Francisco harbor, and where Admiral Land is determined to build two new shipyards, the rush to restore obsolete capacity was wildest. Western Pipe and Steel, a small steel fabricator which did only a $5,336,034 gross business last year, booked a $10,635,000 order from Chairman-Admiral Land, began...
...technique. But at St. Louis neither he nor Siporin will use Rivera's jolting colors and jampacked composition. Their frescoes are in the standard historical vein, grey and red their predominant colors. Contemporary, unlike their murals, are their canvases now on show at the New York and San Francisco World Fairs. But, says Eddie Millman: "In murals alone can art reach the large masses of people. . . . Easel paintings are too personal, too limited in appeal. . . . Painting, to be really functional, must be taken from small exclusive groups and thrown open to everyone...
When the revamped picture opened last week in San Francisco, result of such tinkering was almost as complete a disaster for All Quiet on the Western Front as even Nazis could have wished. Hard to spot were any restored cuts. The historical newsreel was a separate show. The strident commentator, harshly sounding off in the worst tradition of Russian soapbox films, demolished each of the picture's high-voltage, moving climaxes as efficiently as if a 12-inch shell had ripped through the screen...
Since last winter the Government-subsidized Japan Foreign Trade Bureau has taken offices in San Francisco, in Houston, in Chicago. Two weeks after Germany had made an alliance with Japan's enemy, Russia, grinning Director Suejiro Ogawa of the Chicago bureau decided the time had come to get busy. In the New York Journal of Commerce he ran a full-page advertisement: "Japan is America's Third Largest Customer ... if America would buy more Japanese goods United States exports to Japan could be expanded to even larger proportions...
Protesting a 30-day sentence for drunkenness in a San Francisco, Calif, court, Frank Owen waved a blueprint, shouted: "Look, judge, I've invented a submarine that will control the world. I've got a date at the Federal building. . . . Thousands of lives will be lost." Said the judge: "All right, get out and save the world...