Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took him only two years to work out his method of extracting cosmic rays from outer space. In 1912 he built a cosmic aerial, a cosmic booster box and a small cosmic rectifier. Jubilantly he moved to Long Beach, Calif., to await recognition...
...plain, white clapboard rectangle with a steeple and stained-glass windows. He might have difficulty recognizing some of the 3,616 churches now on postwar planning boards. Among the more outlandish designs, most of them reported in this month's Architectural Record: ¶A community church in Carmichael, Calif., which will include a badminton court, tennis court and swimming pool, for the strengthening and immersing of the congregation...
...Thermal, Calif, chapel, "conceived as an oasis in a desert community," will be built around an open court, which wall be full of green vegetation, and floodlighted at night. The congregation will be able to look at the oasis through a big glass window at the head of the chancel. A cube-shaped "tower" will house machinery tc keep parishioners cool...
...Globemaster. Planemaker Donald Douglas, who once feared he would have to shut up shop when peace came, had done just that with some plants. But he was still in production. Last week, he wheeled out of his Long Beach, Calif., hangar the biggest commercial land plane in the world and gave it a test flight. It is the Globemaster, a military version of the Douglas DC-7, a 77-ton giant in which he expects to carry 108 passengers around the world at 300 m.p.h. with only two necessary stops on the way (see cut). In his pocket he already...
Died. Vice Admiral John Sidney McCain, 61, peppery, wizened Commander of famed Fast Carrier Task Force 38; of a heart attack; in Coronado, Calif., a few hours after his return home from the Tokyo Bay surrender ceremonies. His last word on the Japs: "Listen, baby, they were just measuring us-just like you measure a man when you're going to hit him the next minute. They don't know they are licked yet. ... I don't like the look in their eyes...