Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Douglas Oil & Refining Co. refinery at Gardena, Calif. (partly owned by Douglas Aircraft's Donald Douglas) will be turning out high octane gas in and for the U.S.S.R. within the year...
...attack went on. Two shells hit alongside each other in the left wing and exploded. Each ripped a jagged hole about four feet square. Two more landed, in the right wing this time. The radio operator -Technical Sergeant Eddie F. Espitallier of Clovis, Calif.-and the waist gunner knocked down another...
...into ship-engine building after years as a successful West Coast distributor of machine tools and a short stretch spent in Washington as a $1-a-year man in the machine-tool section of OPM. Stifled there by red tape and bungling, he soon left, bought the venerable Sunnyvale (Calif.) Joshua Hendy Iron Works, whose physical assets consisted chiefly of a dilapidated foundry, an assortment machine tools, 35 acres of pear orchard's and some skilled machinists. One of them, Peter McKeand, ground the shaft for the old U.S.S. Oregon. In the spring of 1941 Moore got a contract...
When Henry J. Kaiser's Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. sprang a production miracle and splashed a 10,500-ton Liberty ship into the water ten days after keel laying (TIME, Oct. 5), the tough, hard-hitting gangs in Kaiser's Richmond (Calif.) Shipbuilding Corp. yard No. 2 sputtered "What the hell has Oregon got that we haven...
Last week as U.S. tanks charged across northern Africa, a short, bespectacled, white-haired man working in a small cluttered office in Claremont, Calif, (outside Los Angeles) had reason to feel particularly proud...