Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World Federation of Trade Unions had gone through its early stages last winter in London and last spring in Oakland, Calif. Finally established last week, it was intended to replace the old I.F.T.U. (International Federation of Trade Unions), which had been the world's principal international labor body since...
Hollywood's Banker. Ever since he started the Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association (then the Bank of Italy) 41 years ago, A.P. has had his hard eyes on this goal. The son of a San Jose (Calif.) farmer, he had made enough money in the commission business and real estate to retire at the age of 31. He soon went back to work, via a bank directorship he inherited from his dead father-in-law. When his ideas for liberalizing the bank's methods shocked his conservative fellow directors, Giannini started his own bank...
Armed for Action. In Glendale, Calif., Mrs. Chet Swital routed a would-be purse-snatcher by slamming him with a book titled The Lady Means Business...
...years the main plants of the California Conserving Co., Inc., and Hunt Foods, Inc., have faced each other across the street in Hayward, Calif. As two of the oldest and biggest food-packing companies on the Pacific coast, they were naturally competitors, yet they acted more like pals. If a Hunt machine broke down, Conserving helped make Hunt products; if Conserving had too many peaches on hand, Hunt canned them for Conserving...
...week that it had just bought twelve battle-weary warplanes, including a Flying Fortress and a Mitchell 6-25 from the RFC (total cost: $1,900 for the planes, $2,000 to ship them). U.S.C. also rented cheap the $2 million Hancock Foundation College of Aeronautics at Santa Maria, Calif. (175 miles from the U.S.C. campus in Los Angeles), complete with instructors, 50 training planes, 15 hangars, and a 200-acre airport...