Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berkeley, Calif...
...this year's Davis Cup team); as soon as he cooled off, Ted was on the long-distance phone saying, "I just wrote you a letter . . . don't open it." Another time, he was about to pull into the driveway of his new home at La Crescenta, Calif, when a car whizzed by at terrific speed. Schroeder tore after it, forced the driver to a halt, and told him: "Look, brother, I got a wife and a kid and a dog . . . don't drive 60 miles an hour past my house again...
...Potatoes. He spent one semester cutting classes at the University of Southern California and dropped out. He gave Florida's tennis-happy Rollins College, which lured him with a scholarship, the same short shrift. He lasted exactly three hours on a potato-sacking job in a San Bernardino (Calif.) grocery store; now he has an elusive connection with a Los Angeles meat-packing firm, but never really works at it. Except for 40 months in the Coast Guard, he has never really worked at anything but tennis...
...belching smokestacks that were once the hallmark of industry. Each week brings news of new factories that will change the economic shape of some small town. Last week, for example, Ball Brothers Co. (glass preserving jars) announced the opening of a $3,000,000 plant in El Monte, Calif., and the Electric Auto-Lite Co, (lighting, starting and ignition equipment) announced that it will soon start work on a $1,000,000-odd plant in Hazleton, Pa. Already completed in Cornelia, Ga. was the $1,000,000 plant of the Chicopee Mfg. Corp. (a textile-making subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson...
Among the nation's 2,584,000 unemployed last month, perhaps the most distinguished was grey-haired Ralph K. Davies of Woodside, Calif. He had joined the Standard Oil Co. of California as a 16-year-old junior clerk, rose to $57,000 (a year) as senior vice president, and was in line for its presidency when, in 1941, he left to run the wartime oil industry for Interior Secretary Harold Ickes. His war job done, Davies found himself relegated to a minor vice presidency at Standard. He resigned rather than let Ickes-who had bought ten shares...