Word: alameda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...missed the . . . point most likely to interest TIME'S readers. Four small counties in Northern California-Napa, Sonoma, Santa Clara and Alameda (which includes the Livermore Valley) produce together less than a third of California's annual 140 million gallons. Yet, in the field of table wine, these counties won 19 out of 20 gold and all 23 silver medals...
...Came Poetry. He and the hotel architect had agreed that his theme should be "Sunday in the Alameda" (the city's finest park, opposite the Prado). But Rivera, like his fellow triumvirs of Mexican art, Siqueiros and Orozco, was no man to waste a big hunk of wall on a merely pastoral theme. He had crammed his picture of the Alameda with the villains and heroes, the blood and dreams, of Mexican history. Said he: "Every one of the 148 figures in this mural I have known personally. I've shaken hands with most of them...
...battle; the makeup of a typical carrier task group; some of the "hideous errors," as well as the feats of skill and daring, which have marked the development of carrier war. But beyond the what, when & where of naval air war, Jensen tells the how: how a boy from Alameda feels in combat over Truk ("Those Grummans are beautiful planes," said Lieut, (j.g.) Eugene Valencia; "if they could cook, I'd marry one"); how a baby-faced lad from Athens, Ga. came to be known as "One-Slug" McWhorter ("You just sat back, pressed the button and he blew...
Thousands in San Francisco, in Oakland and Alameda, in towns for 50 miles around, saw the glare in the sky and, seconds later, felt a rumbling earth shock. Windows broke in houses 20 miles away. Telephone lines were down; many a doctor and nurse blundered for hours before they found the scene of the disaster. It was dawn before Port Chicago could see what had happened...
WALTER CHARLES UTT Alameda, Calif...