Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy, which presumably hopes to use it in torpedoes or in anti-submarine devices. The Navy is so excited about it that it won't allow Swiss-born Astronomer Zwicky to open his mouth on the subject. It has also warned Aerojet Engineering Corp. of Azusa, Calif., which is working on the device, to keep it quiet...
Sold. In Santa Monica, Calif., Raymond E. Flora explained why he had tried to 'commit suicide: "... I saw a billboard. Fine funeral for $60. Why miss a bargain like that...
Died. Russell W. Porter, 77, famed optics expert and amateur astronomer, longtime (since 1928) art associate for the 200-inch Mt. Palomar telescope; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. A one-time explorer, Porter went with Peary on two polar expeditions, got interested in astronomy while marooned for two years in the Arctic. At the Mt. Palomar project, Porter's three-dimensional scale drawings were a vital factor in the design and construction of the big telescope...
While other builders pondered their problems in Chicago, Hugh Kern in Bakersfield, Calif, had some solutions. His Mobilhome Corp. was rolling houses off an open-air assembly line at the rate of one a day. He had no trouble finding buyers...
Died. Bailey Willis, 91, Stanford University's longtime (since 1915) professor of geology, explorer and world-famed seismologist who was credited with predicting Santa Barbara's disastrous earthquake of 1925; after short illness; in Palo Alto, Calif...