Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Research Fellowships to Elvin E. Overton, Dean of Mercer University Law School, Macon, G.; Jacobus ten-Broek, of Berkeley, Calif., LL.B. '38, University of California; Ernst H. Schopflocher, of Madison, Wis., J.U.D. '20, Erlangen-Bavaria, LL.B. '40, University of Wisconsin; Joseph Gold, of London, England, LL.B. '35, LL.M. '36, University of London; Selig J. Seligman, of Brooklyn, N. Y., candidate for LL.B. '40, Harvard; Lewis B. Sohn, of Lwow, Poland, LL.M. and Master of Diplomatic Science, '35, University of John Casimir, Lwow, Poland, candidate for LL.M. '40, Harvard; Marcus Manoff, of Philadelphia, Pa., candidate for LL.B. '40, Harvard; George...
...when she outflew nine men and won the arduous, annual Bendix Trophy Race in 8 hours, 10 minutes, 31.4 seconds (male record: 7 hours, 54 minutes, 26.31 seconds). Last week she popped another speed mark into her bagful of trophies and records: 2.000 kilometers (1,242.74 miles) from Burbank, Calif, to Albuquerque, N. M. and back in 3 hours, 44 minutes, 47 seconds, at an average 331,717 m.p.h. Previous record for the distance: 311 m.p.h., held by Germany's Ernst Seibert. At week's end, the international air-speed record was still a man's: Fritz...
...subsidiaries, Cleveland Wrecking is one of six big wrecking companies whose relative size no man can list because wreckers are closemouthed about sales and profits. This year, with wrecking contracts all over the country (examples: 800 buildings in Louisville, 550 in Cincinnati, 300 in Columbus, Ohio, 75 in Oakland, Calif.), Cleveland Wrecking is having one of the big years of its career, can well look forward to salvage coups like its saving of 6,000,000 feet of lumber from Duluth grain elevators. To keep up with their destruction, the Roses need 200 administrative employes, sometimes employ as much...
...week the Selenga and her cargo were still detained at Hong Kong, when in came the Vladimir Mayakovsky, also under British escort. She had 4,000 tons of U. S. copper and a lot of molybdenite aboard, cleared from Manzanillo on Mexico's west coast and San Pedro, Calif. She, too, was bound for Vladivostok. Her cargo, too, was suspect as contraband for Germany...
Sportsman Charles Stewart Howard rejoiced at the birth at his Ridgewood Ranch at Willits, Calif, of a chestnut colt: first get of Seabiscuit, world's top moneymaker...