Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monrovia, Calif...
...confirmed these essential facts, The XS-1, a small, thin-winged, rocket-propelled airplane, built by Buffalo's Bell Aircraft Corp., had been flown through the barrier several times in recent weeks at the closely guarded test center at Muroc, Calif. The chief test pilot was 24-year-old Air Force Captain Charles Yaeger, World War II fighter pilot. The other pilots were Howard Lilly and Herbert Hoover, civilian flyers of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. The airmen had experienced almost none of the difficulties predicted by scientists to be lying in the transonic area in which other...
Berkeley, Calif...
...SMITH Oakland, Calif...
...Pasadena, Calif., an all-male jury considered the case against Sugar Heir John D. Spreckels III, whose blonde wife, Lou Dell, charged that he had whaled her with a poker. Pondering in private for 7½ hours, the jury decided that...