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...Burbank, Calif., Mrs. Jane O'Gorman, mother of a two-year-old son, bought a small cottage on a quiet street. It was not unlike all the other small cottages on the same shaded street, but to Jane O'Gorman it was salvation...
...blood and fireworks from Moscow last week. One big piece of news was that Nikolay Tsitsin, the Soviet Union's 46-year-old Luther Burbank, had produced a new annual wheat yielding 144 bushels an acre, quadrupling the best previous yield in the Moscow latitude. He had also got the first live seeds from attempts to cross wheat and rye with a desert plant (Elymus giganteus), which may make it possible to grow those grains almost anywhere, thus opening to cultivation 150,000,000 acres of hitherto untillable Soviet land. The biggest news, however, was this: Nikolay Tsitsin appeared...
...help solve Lockheed Aircraft's female problem, Dr. Marion Janet Dakin spent four months incognito on almost every kind of woman's job in the company's Burbank plant. In last fortnight's Industrial Medicine, she reports what she found...
Lanky, black-haired Howard Robard Hughes, moviemaker, planemaker and speed flyer, shrank the U.S. continent this week. In a brand-new four-motored, 60-passenger Lockheed Constellation he took off from Burbank, Calif, at 3:56 (P.W.T.), landed at Washington, D.C. six hours and 58 minutes later. Average speed: 355 m.p.h. He cracked his own seven-year transcontinental record by 30 minutes, smashed the nine-year-old transport record by 3 hours, 24 minutes...
...Midwest authenticity is neither an Iowa town nor a 20th Century-Fox set. It is an astute selection of views of Santa Rosa, Calif, (with help from nearby Healdsburg and Sebastopol). Santa Rosa (1939 pop. 10,636) has been known chiefly as the home of the late great Luther Burbank. It now seems likely to become Hollywood's All-American Town. Santa Rosa is a museum of U.S. store and home architecture. The courthouse and square are solid Midwest. By turning a corner, you can get the white columns of the Old South, the brown brick of Oklahoma City...