Word: alameda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nome. Jimmy Doolittle was born at Alameda, Calif. 45 years ago, but he first found his fighting fists in Nome, Alaska, where his father hunted unsuccessfully for Yukon gold. Now a solid five feet, five inches of lean and tangy meat, Jimmy was then the smallest boy in school, and so he had to try to lick all the other boys. At high school (Los Angeles Manual Arts) and college (U. of California's School of Mines) he was successively bantam, welter and middleweight boxing champion...
Rugged, ambitious Earl Warren made his reputation as the crusading district attorney of Alameda County (Oakland, Berkeley and the East Bay waterfront). There, in 13 years, he waged campaigns against bail-bond brokers, liquor-law violators, cleaning & dyeing racketeers, grafting politicians and labor "goon squads...
...marketing plain sea water at $20 a gallon, $1.25 a glass as a cure for "mineral deficiencies," one Michael Lee of Alameda, Calif. was fined $1,000. Thus ended a thriving business, with $30,000 a year in profits, 200 active sales agencies, and no production costs at all except packaging...
Dilemma. In Alameda, Calif., the parents of newly-born Linda Johnson wondered whether to register the birth in Alameda or Contra Costa County. The baby was born on the way to the hospital, in a tunnel under the county line...
...wear slacks. In Detroit Mayor Edward Jeffries grudgingly admitted that a female employe of the city, forced by priorities to bicycle to work, might do her job in slacks. Pants made good sense for wartime. Lieut. Commander Roy R. Darron ordered women employed in the machine shops of the Alameda Naval Air Station in California to wear pants to work...