Word: calif
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles, Calif...
...sound, but the Dragon Throne failed to show up. She pottered around a customs warehouse looking for it, finally notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation, cabled Director Loew-Beer. Presently she received a reply. The director, still in smuggling mood, had addressed the throne to a friend in Oakland, Calif., which he innocently assumed was a suburb of New York. Mrs. Roosevelt and Holland America Line officials looked some more, found the imperial seat, not yet forwarded to "suburban" Oakland, in a crate on a dock in Hoboken, N. J. Last week the throne went on view, along with some...
From Tarzana, Calif, (named after his tree-swinging nature-man) Author Edgar Rice Burroughs issued an ultimatum to all wrestlers, boxers, strongmen, footballers calling themselves Tarzan: " 'Tarzan' is a copyrighted trademark and if these plug-uglies insist upon using it, I'm going to insist on the right to license them and stencil the copyright number on their chests...
...order, but it was not big enough to give pleasure to Glenn Luther Martin. He had hoped to fill the $15,000,000 bomber order which the War Department simultaneously placed with his big competitor, Douglas Aircraft Co. of Santa Monica, Calif. But the fact that he did not get the big order was not even a serious setback to Glenn Martin today. His $10,000.000 plant outside Baltimore had just delivered 117 B10 bombers to The Netherlands, was working on a ten-million dollar order for new gull-winged flying boats for the Navy, 215 of the 167 bombers...
Glenn's father liked it better when the Martins moved to Santa Ana, Calif, and Glenn began making $3,000 to $4,000 a year selling Fords and Maxwells. When Glenn began making gliders in his garage, Father Martin's eyebrows raised. When Glenn rented an abandoned Methodist church, locked the doors, painted the windows and, with a whittled propeller and a Ford Model N motor, began to construct an airplane, his alarmed father thought Glenn had taken leave of his senses...