Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eight bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church gathered together last week for the sacred act of laying on of hands. The place: All-Saints-by-the-Sea in Santa Barbara, Calif. The occasion: the first consecration in the U.S. of an Oriental bishop. Episcopal bishops are usually consecrated in cathedrals, but China-born Rt. Rev. Quentin K. Y. Huang, who studied for the ministry in the U.S., had deliberately chosen the tiny (300 communicants) church at Santa Barbara. Reason: for several years it had been the only guaranteed source of financial support for relief work he directed in China...
...supertransport market is a contest between thoroughbreds. Boeing has already entered its 114-passenger Stratocruiser, foaled in the same stable as the speedy B29. Consolidated Vultee is betting on the 400-passenger transport version of its XB-36 (stablemate of purse-winners like the Liberator, Catalina). In Burbank, Calif, this week the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. led its entry out of the paddock...