Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, a fortnight ago, at Long Beach, Calif., she got numbing news - her first husband had been found alive and well in a Rangoon hospital...
Written by Lynn Jefferies, daughter of Mrs. Inge Jefferies, Santa Ana, Calif...
...World War I, and as successor to the late Wiley Post as Lockheed Aircraft's top test pilot tested some 300 different types of plane (including the P-38 Lightning on its maiden flight) with out once having to bail out ; of a heart attack; in Burbank, Calif...
...hysterical women. As usual, nobody had to do much of anything to qualify. The first winner, picked by lot (given a purple mantle, a jeweled crown, seated on a throne, and offered everything she wanted-"within reason"-for 24 hours) was Mrs. Evelyn Lane, a fortyish housewife from Arcadia, Calif. What she wanted was a recording of the broadcast, to send to her soldier...
Congressman Richard J. Welch (R., Calif.) wanted to know why scarce steel was being used to build 30 merchant ships in U.S. yards for the Dutch Government. To this logical question he got a logical answer. Said the Maritime Commission's Vice Admiral Emery S. Land: when the ships are completed they will be assigned to the United Nations shipping pool and used for whatever service the pool considers necessary. Only after the pool is disbanded will the Dutch get their new ships...