Word: bakersfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Allan Henry Hoover, 30, younger son of the 31st President, Bakersfield, Calif, farmer; and Margaret Coberly; in Los Angeles...
...pretty Hostess Yvonne Trego, and nine passengers, including a member of Jimmy Dorsey's orchestra, an artist from Walt Disney's studio and young Edward Thomas Ford Jr., son of the vice president of the Grace Lines, with his pretty wife. The weather was not bad: at Bakersfield the ceiling was 3,500 ft., at Burbank 3,000 ft. The peaks on both sides of the course were garlanded with scattered clouds. Delayed slightly, Pilot Edwin W. ("Soapy") Blom, a veteran of 18 years' flying, radioed Burbank that he would arrive at 7:37, seven minutes late...
...Carrie Estelle Betzold Doheny can do business with the best of them. Her company was her husband's personal basket, founded long before the top blew off the Naval oil lease of Elk Hills. Today it is a hodgepodge of the remaining Doheny oil lands in Bakersfield, Long Beach, Ventura, Kettleman Hills, a big interest in Tide Water Associated Oil, a number of California corner lots, an eleven-story building in Los Angeles, four ranches which raise cattle, grain, fruits...
Indeed, TIME does an injustice to California's famed highway system in its description of the Ridge Route between Bakersfield and Los Angeles [TIME, July...
From Los Angeles to Bakersfield, Calif, stretches the Ridge Route, a treacherous ribbon of curves and grades famed both for its scenery and its danger. After 51 motorists had been killed on Ridge Route in 15 months, Chief E. Raymond Cato of the California Highway Patrol decided on an ingenious method to cancel the carnage, put it into effect last week on a 62½-mile section of the Ridge Route from Castaic Junction to Arvin Road...