Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HOLT Laguna Beach, Calif...
...Douglas Navy plane was grounded in Kansas through loss of an aileron hinge. The Douglas plant, within easy flying distance, had plenty of hinges, but all were beinturned out under Army contract. The Navy plane had to wait ten days while it got its hinge through Philadelphia via Oakland, Calif...
General William Tecumseh Sherman left a bitter record of a professional soldier's everlasting struggle to make ends meet. When he was a lieutenant he wrote: "Had it not been for the $1,500 I had made in the store at Coloma [Calif.], I could not have lived through the winter." Sherman resigned and even when the Civil War broke out hesitated to go in again because "I did not and will not volunteer for three months because I cannot throw my family on the cold charity of the world...
...Guam"; and Mary Frances Tweed, 27, mother of two; on Aug. 8, six years after their marriage (his first, her second), three weeks after he came home on furlough after 31 months of hide& -seek with Guam's Jap occupation forces, (TIME, Aug. 21); in San Diego, Calif. One of the allegations: she insulted the wives of other servicemen...
Wilbert Winkle, having demonstrated budding heroism by breaking out of his bank cage and starting a fix-it shop in his garage, can be counted on by experienced movie-goers to bloom properly when transplanted from Benton, Calif, to the South Pacific. He does, by wiping out a machine-gun nest with a bulldozer, and comes home a hero even to his wife. Mr. Winkle has its moving moments, but the total effect is about as convincing as if professional tough guy Edward G. Robinson were to play the part of the mild little bank clerk-which he does...