Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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GEORGE ATWOOD Sacramento, Calif...
...Color. In Redwood City, Calif., Donald Brown sued Binney & Smith Co., crayon manufacturers, for $35,243, complained that after his young son ate some of the crayons his body turned blue and his blood chocolate brown...
Locked Stable. In Monterey, Calif., Deley Brown borrowed a car, wrecked it, borrowed a truck to tow the wrecked car away, wrecked the truck, climbed out of the wreckage and tore up his driver's license...
Plain & Fancy. At 59, grey Jim Williams is as pale and paunchy as one of his machine-shop characters. He lives, somewhat apologetically, in a fancy 2O-room Tudor mansion with a $30,000 swimming pool in San Marino, Calif. He sits down at his drawing board as early as 6 a.m. and waits, with a fisherman's patience, for an idea to strike. Sometimes it takes hours. When he really gets one hooked, he finishes a panel in a hurry. If the fishing is good, he can polish off four panels in a morning...
...founder (in the early 1900s) of a small Indiana firm manufacturing auto parts, which grew along with the infant auto industry, merged in 1928 with three others to form what is now the Borg-Warner Corp., giant Midwest makers of everything from harrow discs to washing machines; in Pasadena, Calif...