Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chico, Calif...
...years ago the New York Daily Mirror's Broadway reporter, Ted Friend, set out to make a big-city newspaperman's dream come true. Tired of the high pressure life, he bought a country weekly in Susanville, Calif., and went west envisioning a soft life, a house of many hammocks for lazy lounging (TIME, Aug. 9, 1943). This week, a sadder but wiser man, he sold out; editing a weekly, he had discovered, left little time for lounging. Dragging his hammocks behind him, he is moving on to a ranch near San Francisco, where he says he will...
...slender, 19-year-old marine reported for duty last week at the carpenter shop of Camp Pendleton, Calif. For one of the mightiest small fights in World War II, Pfc. Andrew Jackson ("Duke") Carter Jr. of Paducah, Tex. had only one mark to show; he had a deep red scar on his right hand...
...Mill Valley, Calif, (ten miles north of San Francisco) had an explosive outbreak of 18 cases...
...bought 25 of them. The smartest trick of all was to install centralized traffic control on nearly 400 miles of U.P.'s single track, which gave it many of the advantages of double track. The whole 302 miles between Daggett, Calif, and Caliente, Nev. is now controlled by one operator in Las Vegas, sitting behind a battery of levers and buttons...