Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...POLLOCK, M.D. Santa Monica, Calif...
...Francisco, Calif...
...FREE Sealed Book, with its amazing revelations about these mysteries of life." Last week this ad, like hundreds of others before it in such respectable publications as the New York Times Magazine Section, was bringing sacks of letters to the headquarters of the Rosicrucians in San Jose, Calif. After receiving their free Sealed Book, some of the ad-answerers would go on to become members of AMORC (the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis) and pay dues of $2.50 a month to learn "through alchemy, metaphysics and cosmology" how to be happy. But many a faithful U.S. Rosicrucian might be jolted...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Albert William Stevens, 63, holder of the world's altitude record for manned balloons; after long illness; in Redwood City, Calif. A top-notch aerial photographer, Colonel Stevens took the first photograph showing laterally the earth's curvature (1930) and the first pictures showing the moon's shadow on the earth during a total eclipse (1932), went to 72,395 feet in a balloon on Nov. 11, 1935 (with Captain Orvil Anderson) to set a substratosphere record...
...some price cuts. The first postwar dip in the price of zinc (from 17½? to 16? a Ib.) was quickly passed on with lower prices on galvanized steel products. What few premium prices remained were gradually being dropped. Henry Kaiser cut the price of steel from his Fontana, Calif, plant $10 to $39 a ton, thereby wiping out increases made last August...