Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles, Calif...
...thing was strangely missing: one issue which by all historical precedents should have loomed large if not largest in the campaign was at least half-forgotten. At Amarillo, Tex. last week and at Sacramento, Calif. Candidate Willkie told Democrats they had to choose between the tradition of voting for their party and the tradition against a third term. But the low ebb of public attention to the third-term issue was exemplified by hearings held in Washington on Senator Burke's proposed Constitutional amendment for a single, six-year Presidential term: so meagre was the audience that the hearings...
...calibre championship (with service rifle at all distances and all positions) attracts the largest entry. In a field of 1,705, shooting from 200 to 1,000 yards (prone, kneeling, standing), Sergeant William J. Coffman (U. S. Infantry) of Camp Ord, Calif, shot the sharpest: 289 out of a possible...
Last week the Navy bought a steel mill in San Francisco, Calif., to turn out armor plate for ships. Then the Navy did approximately what would have to be done with any conscripted plant. Delegated to run the Navy plant was Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s subsidiary Union Iron Works, which was already making destroyers and cruisers on a voluntary contract...
Died. Eddie Collins, 56, sad-eyed, fluttery-faced, burlesque-to-cinema comedian who served as inspiration for Walt Disney's celebrated "Dopey" (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs}] of heart attack; in Arcadia, Calif...