Word: calif
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than 150 lives were saved by parachutes last year, and so a week ago Sergeant Archie Atherton, crack parachutist of the U. S. Marine Corps, opened a school for parachuting in San Diego, Calif. Sergeant Atherton is known as the originator of "spot landing" and averaged a drop a day for a year...
...into a mining centre where young Russian engineers soon pilgrimaged to complete their education. Italy engaged Engineer Hoover one summer to prospect in the Alps for the iron old Romans must have used for their swords.* Engineer Hoover and his brother, Theodore Jesse Hoover (who lives in Swanton, Calif.), perfected and installed a method for recovering zinc from the dumps of Australian lead and silver mines. In Burma, Engineer Hoover bought an abandoned mine and transformed it into one of the world's largest, employing 20,000 men. In 1914, he had the choice of selling out this property...
...evening when President Harding had to think about Oil instead of drawing to a straight flush. Sinclair and another big oilman, Edward L. Doheny from the Pacific Coast, an old friend of Fall's, were anxious for some leases on the naval oil reserves at Elk Hills, Calif., and the Teapot Dome in Natrona County, Wyo. To accommodate them, Secretary Fall and Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy, prepared an executive order, transferring these reserves from the Navy to the Department of the Interior. President Harding was badly worried, but he signed the orders. Then Fall signed the leases...
...straight," said Fred Genazzi of Point Reyes, Calif., to Captain W. B. Sellner, State Fish and Game Commissioner, who had accused him of dumping garbage on his (Sellner's) property...
Married. Adela Rogers St. John, author (Free Soul, Skyrocket) and scenario writer, of Santa Barbara, Calif.; to Richard ("Dick") Hyland, famed Stanford University football player...