Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Melvin Hart Jr. 2L, of Spokane, Washington, was elected at a meeting last night to the presidency of the Law Review for the coming year, to succeed Herman Thomas Austern 3L as recipient of the Law School's highest honor. At the same time Maynard Joy Toll, of Glendale, California, a graduate of the University of California in 1927, was elected treasurer...
Edwin Grabhorn, of the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, California, has donated to the Library several books produced by the Press under his direction...
...tempted to flirt with trouble by writing for the newspapers. His family likes having a first-rate sportsman in the family and he is afforded ample time and allowance to play and practice. He arrived at the Brooklyn tournament fresh from four months of serious tennis training in California. "The only thing," said an oldtime linesman watching the Van Ryn-Tilden match, "that can stop that lad is some blame girl. I hope he's a constitutional bachelor...
...continental U. S. has little more than 1,300 formal airports and landing fields properly lighted and marked, although about 900 more are proposed and 4,000 casual ones exist (lots owned by municipalities, corporations, clubs, commissions and individuals). California has the most good fields, 143. Texas has 101, Pennsylvania 83, Ohio 62, Illinois 60, Oklahoma 46, New York 43, Iowa...
...more potent oilmen met at St. Louis, last week, to see what could be done about the overproduction, from which their industry has long been suffering (TIME, Dec. 17). Oklahoma operators agreed to cut production from 700,000 barrels a day to 650,000. Meanwhile, however, Texas and California oil fields continued on an unlimited production basis. Unless a national agreement covering all oil fields is reached it would appear that regional agreements can effect no major improvement. Present U. S. production is approximately 2,690,000 barrels a day and wildcatting (opening up new fields, greatest obstacle to controlled...