Word: californias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have heard, the Federal Government within the past two years has loaned $2,563,000 and given $2,097,000 to the Imperial Irrigation District of California for construction of a power system that duplicates entirely the system of our privately-owned power utility in the same area-the Imperial Valley, largest irrigated area in the world...
HARRY R. BURTON Assistant Advertising Agent The Nevada-California Electric Corp. El Centro, Calif...
...exasperatingly benevolent father straightens things out; that Andy and Becky will quarrel and then make up with one of those wonderful cave-man kisses. Realizing that the audience is familiar with the formula they are using, MGM should have introduced some new ideas, if such phenomena exist in California. Instead, the hackneyed plot has been made even more important--and even more unconvincing; the slushy sentimentality is slopped on in gobs; and there is an undercurrent of heavy seriousness that weighs the picture down. Only Mickey Rooney of the principal players retains his original spontaneity, and his scenes really sparkle...
...been said a lot before, but it is still true: this year's Varsity ice team is an unpredictable one of many extremes. In its first two games, against the Junior Olympics and Southern California the squad upset the dope with two decisive victories. Then it lost to a rather mediocre B. U. sextet by a 6 to 3 score, and immediately after the Christmas vacation was taken into camp by Toronto to the tune...
...sleek as freshly peeled willow. As overalled mechanics trundled her out for the warm-up at March Field one day last week she gleamed slimly among the bulb-nosed fighters, the potbellied bombers on the Army Air Corps Southern California airdrome. Major General Henry H. Arnold, greying Chief of the Air Corps, surveyed with particular approval her twin engines, Prestone-cooled V12 Allisons of 1,000 horsepower each, faired trimly into the metal wing. Well he knew that broad-beamed radial air-cooled motors, such as the big U. S. engine builders have brought to perfection, could not be used...