Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dilemma. In Alameda, Calif., the parents of newly-born Linda Johnson wondered whether to register the birth in Alameda or Contra Costa County. The baby was born on the way to the hospital, in a tunnel under the county line...
...Genzo Horino, son of a well-to-do Japanese landowner, set out for the U.S. at 18 with his father's blessing and 5,000 yen, rented ten acres and an old farmhouse near Torrance, Calif., for 27 years grew berries and tomatoes. Genzo retired three years ago, moved into a big, rambling home in Hollywood. There he sat last week, in U.S. clothes but wearing a black skull cap, peacefully smoking a pipe. Two of Genzo's six sons are in the Army. But Son Isamu Horino, 26, is a tough, wiry Nisei boy with a shock...
With the only refrigerated wind tunnel and the biggest low-pressure chamber in the U.S. aviation industry, Airesearch Co. of Inglewood, Calif. is developing equipment to send planes toward the stratosphere, whither the air battles of World War II are rapidly climbing. The refrigerated wind tunnel, an enormous doughnut 25 feet across, made of tubing three feet in diameter, contains a 300-m.p.h. wind that blows at temperatures down to -90° Fahrenheit...
Died. James Mills, 58, veteran foreign correspondent (who in 30 years traveled 340,000 miles for A.P.); after a paralytic stroke; in Ventura, Calif...
Valuables. In Atlanta, a society matron bought a spare girdle, hustled it to the bank and filed it away in a safety deposit vault for future reference. In Van Nuys, Calif., somebody made off with a stagecoach...