Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beverly Hills, Calif...
Santa Monica, Calif...
...Light-Fingered. In Gooding, Idaho, someone stole off with a 20-ton steel bridge. In Del Mar, Calif., somebody made away with J. E. Moreno's brick wall. In Charleston, W.Va., Mrs. E. C. Leonard lost her handbag to an autoist who grabbed it as he tore past. In Uniontown, Pa., a strange dog snatched Dora Bookchin's purse...
RUTH HELEN PAPE Berkeley, Calif...
...their rockers. In 1859, "Old Pancake" Comstock and three others, playing a hunch, staked out a 1,500-ft. claim around the mouth of a small spring where the blue sand was thick. They sent a sample of crumbly stuff across the mountains to an assayer in Grass Valley, Calif. He tested it twice, to be sure. There was no doubt: the stuff that gold miners had cursed and kicked aside was rich in silver...