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Word: calif (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fast Mix. The Douglas "Mixmaster," military prototype of the DC-8, cracked the cross-cpuntry speed record. With a good tail wind helping its tail propellers, it averaged 432 miles an hour from Long Beach, Calif., to Washington's Boiling Field. Flying time: five hours, 17 min utes, 34 seconds. After the plane landed, one motor caught fire. It was quickly extinguished, but the plane had to be ignobly pushed to the hangar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Dec. 17, 1945 | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

Full House. In Hayward, Calif., Harold Sexton was arrested for overcrowding his taxi. His payload: 18 passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 10, 1945 | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

Beaumont, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 10, 1945 | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

...Eureka, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 10, 1945 | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

Married. Bette Davis, 37, starey, brainy cinemactress; and William Grant Sherry, 31, pugilist turned painter; she for the third time, he for the first; in Riverside, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 10, 1945 | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

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