Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Unbeaten teams at this point: Iowa, Carnegie Tech, Georgia Tech, Florida, Tennessee, Southern California (one tie), Wisconsin (one tie), Princeton (two ties)." [TIME...
...warship. Mr. Hoover, unpacking, cast a bright eye on his new-bought kit of deep-sea fishing tackle. Watching the lazy Pacific swells some of his first thoughts were about the monster sailfish, amber-jacks, tuna, wahoos, crevalles and yellowtails that live off the coast of Lower California and in the tide-rips from there to Chile...
Estate of Henry E. Huntington: Nine million five hundred thousand dollars five-year notes; to pay balance of Federal estate and California inheritance tax on $42,000,000 estate of California's most famed book-collector; the library, now a public possession, is not among assets securing loan; Harris Forbes & Co., E. H. Rollins & Sons; counsel: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, O'Melveny, Tuller & Myers (Los Angeles...
Pacific Western Oil Co.: Fifteen million five hundred thousand dollars 15-year debentures; to help purchase California oil properties of Petroleum Securities Co. (Edward L. Doheny) covering 40,000 acres, valued at 43 million dollars; Blyth, Witter & Co., J. & W. Seligman & Co.; counsel: Sullivan and Cromwell, Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine & Wood (Manhattan) Loeb, Walker & Loeb (Los Angeles...
...written in the Hollywood ritual that no evening is so sacred as the opening night of a potent picture. In soft purring motors come the stars through the bracing California evening. The blocks about the theatre are set with huge searchlights sweeping heaven. Fierce cordons of police force order in the crowds, thousands of common folk, many of whom have waited at vantage points since afternoon to see the gods descend from their chariots and pass nobly through the gates. Radio stations spread each new arrival's name across the miles of night. Stars cry their greeting through the microphone...