Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carmel, Calif...
...GRANT Oakland, Calif...
Humming at their work, astronomers and technicians were busy again at Mt. Palomar Observatory, Calif. The great 200-inch mirror, neglected during the war, was still far from completion. But soon the grinders and polishers would be working at its delicate surface. Meanwhile, a concrete disc of the same diameter and weight (18 tons) was doubling for the mirror in the almost finished largest-telescope-in-the-world, while final tests were made on its intricate controls. In another year, or perhaps two, Mt. Palomar would be open for business...
Recommended Reading. In Oakland, Calif., a thief in Mrs. Louis Deisnel's book shop made off with nine Bibles...
...Clark Bundy, 64, three times national doubles tennis champion (with Maurice McLoughlin), former husband of onetime (1904) women's national singles champion May Sutton, father of first-ten player Dorothy May Bundy, uncle of onetime (1930) national singles champion John Hope Doeg; after long illness; in Santa Monica, Calif...