Word: calif
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oakland, Calif...
...without stop. In May 1923, Lieutenants John Macready and Oakley Kelly, U. S. Army, flew a Liberty-engined Fokker from Roosevelt Field to San Diego in 26 hours and 50 minutes. Last August this same Yankee Doodle, flown by Col. Arthur Goebel, made the crossing from Los Angeles, Calif., to Curtiss Field, L. I., in 18 hours and 58 minutes. He was aided by a tail wind much...
...meeting of the Gamma chapter of the Tau Beta Phi fraternity, four men wee elected to membership in the organization, which in the School of Engineering corresponds to Phi Beta Kappa. The newly elected members are C. J. Hooper G.E.S., of Chicago, III., J. Mc.D. Ide G.E.S., of Redicnds, Calif., M. H. MacKusick '28, of Cambridge, and M. B. Nunlist '28, of Brooklyn...
...Francisco, Calif...
Last March, by act of God and the frailty of human works, 350 persons were killed when the St. Francis dam in Ventura county, Calif., burst. Last week, the city of Los Angeles and the county of Ventura, basing the value of life upon the earning power of the dead, made settlements to heirs of between $11,000 and $20,000 per victim. Some heirs, dissatisfied, were suing for as high as $100,000 per adult victim, $35,000 per child victim. A firm of Stockton lawyers was asking one-third of these sums for handling the suits...