Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Watsonville, Calif...
...words scarcely had a chance to sink into the awareness of the U.S. public when the West Coast, on guard and tense along 3,250 miles of shore, received the first attack on continental U.S. soil. A submarine emerged from the sea about seven miles north of Santa Barbara, Calif., and for 20 minutes lobbed shells at an oil refinery. First reports: little damage; no one was injured; no fires were started; most of the 25 shells fired exploded in a field; frightening horses; one went over Highway 101, burst in the foothills. The attack began...
Shot. Near Pomona, Calif., Ranchman C. E. Foote shot at a crow. The shot frightened his horse, whose shoe struck sparks from a rock. The sparks set a fire that burned 25 acres of land. The crow escaped...
...wealthiest men in the Army, Patton was born in San Gabriel, Calif., attended V.M.I, before he went to West Point, where he was famous for his jingles and atrocious spelling. It took him five instead of the usual four years to get through, but in his last year he was made adjutant-the second highest military honor at the Academy...
Almost every time he tries, Pole Vaulter Cornelius ("Dutch") Warmerdam of San Francisco, Calif, vaults a little higher. Two years ago he was the first man to top 15 feet, once considered physically impossible. Last year he set a new outdoor mark of 15 ft. 5¾ in. (TIME, June 16). Fortnight ago, at the Millrose Games in Madison Square Garden, he set a new indoor mark of 15 ft. ⅜ in. But pole vaulting indoors bothers Dutch. "Here in the Garden," he said, "the ceiling seemed to press down on me." But last week in Boston's Garden...