Losing the West and Copper Industry Decline In the Nation
W J Graham notes a broad retreat in western mining led by copper where foreign production and investment abroad reduce domestic activity. While large U S producers cut domestic mining by over seventy percent they run high capacity abroad aided by Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo. A four percent import tax exists but advocates urge a tariff based protection to shield workers and sustaining the industry.
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West
W. J. Graham
Arizona Authority
Graham
Contract Is Set For Shasta Dam
The contract for Shasta Dam on the Sacramento River California was awarded to Pacific Constructors Inc of Los Angeles a syndicate of 12 firms for 35939450. The bid beat a rival bid of 36200357 by 262907 showing close competition. Shasta will stand 550 feet high and 3500 feet long with a 350000 kilowatt plant and 5 610000 cubic yards of concrete. Located about 14 miles north of Redding the project forms the centerpiece of the Central Valley Project to control the river and supply water across a 400 mile long region.
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Shasta Dam
Sacramento River
California
Harold L. Ickes
Pacific Constructors, Inc
Los Angeles
Great Central Valey
Griffith Company
Metropolitan Construction Company
Lawler and
Boulder Dam
Grand Coulee
Columbia River
Washington
Star Fights Store Over Parking Lot Next to His Property
Fred MacMurray, co star of Sing You Sinners, fights a Los Angeles department store over a parking lot built beside his property disturbing tenants according to Fyed.
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Fred MacMurray
Bing Crosby
Paramount
John Barrymore Stars as Bombastic Editor in Spawn of the North
John Barrymore, a perennial favorite, plays a bombastic editor in Paramount's Spawn of the North with Lynne Overman as his printer. The cast highlights lively newsroom clashes and melodramatic plotting.
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John Barrymore
Paramount
Lynne Overman
Greatest exhibit of PePru art and culture set for present show
A landmark display titled the greatest exhibit of the art and culture of ancient PePru will be presented at the 1339 Golden Gate International Rep osition.
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Bertin
Crown Princess
Louise of
Sweden
Wilmington
Delaware
William E. Low
Servel, Inc
Evansville, Inc
Low
International Correspondence Schools
Shirley Tempie
Iica
Neill James
Lapland
Lance
Count Reventlow
Barbara Horton
Woolworth
United States
Pacific
South America
Rhodesia
Belgian Congo
Star Fights Store
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