Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood, Calif...
...that this week manufacturers buzzed through the Army and Navy offices ironing out last wrinkles before signing the $80,000,000 in contracts already waiting for them. Meanwhile, from NDAC came word of one big manufacturer who had gone ahead building without contracts, hoping for the best. At Inglewood, Calif., production-wise President James Howard Kindelberger of North American Aviation has been turning out advanced training planes, stacking them on the shelf, for delivery. Boss of a company that is 29.1% owned by Bill Knudsen's General Motors Corp., "Dutch" Kindelberger was banking on promises and the urgent necessity...
...Consolidated flying boat, the Guba, fitted for tropical exploration, and engaging famed U. S. Pilot Clyde Pangborn to shuttle it back & forth across the Atlantic with three-and-a-half-ton loads of aluminum for British aircraft factories. Pilot Pangborn appeared last week at Oakland, Calif, to enlist other U. S. fliers (between 20 and 40, with 500 hours) as R. A. F. instructors in Canada and as ferry pilots between factories and R. A. F. bases in England. For overseas work the British offered in U. S. money $150 per week, plus $500 bonus...
Married. Loretta Young, 27, veteran cinemactress; and Thomas H. Lewis, 38, radio advertising man; in Westwood, Calif.; she for the second time, he for the first...
Divorced. Commander Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., 51, U. S. Navy retired, thrice married ex-spouse of the Duchess of Windsor; and Norma Reese Johnson Spencer. 47; in Santa Monica, Calif. During a stormy session of accusations and counteraccusations Navyman Spencer, charged with cruelty and habitual intemperance, testified that his weekly liquor bill was only about $10, that his wife "drank as much...