Word: diego
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the yacht Velero III, which by express order of its owner is referred to as a cruiser, never as a yacht, tied up in San Diego Harbor one day last week, there disembarked an eccentric man, and after him some of the earth's most eccentric animals. The man was Captain George Allan Hancock, multimillionaire California oil and real-estate operator, musician, aviator, scientist, explorer...
Typical of the 21 air academies approved by the Bureau of Air Commerce is San Diego's Ryan School of Aeronautics, which last week surveyed its 15 years' activity. Ryan's students come mostly from farms and small towns. Though the average age of enrollment is 21, each fresh batch includes a few middle-aged executives, bankers, retired Army & Navy officers. Seventeen instructors teach ten full courses each year, turn out master navigators for $100; radio engineers, $250; master mechanics, $495; private and limited commercial pilots, $545 to $795; commercial pilots, $2,285; master pilots...
...mighty fleet came to a stop, turned its searchlights on the spot. A boat lowered from the Pennsylvania fished out four struggling men who were carried to the hospital ship Relief, where Jesse Hanley Hester, 33, of San Diego, died of his injuries...
Died. Captain Bruce Richardson Ware II, U. S. N., 50, whose gun crew on the transport Mongolia fired the first U. S. shot in the War on April 19, 1917, sinking a German submarine; of heart disease; in San Diego, Calif...
...Portland, crippled onetime Singer Leonard Taylor, who has judged shows from Montreal to San Diego, had 200 birds to listen to. Until Judge Taylor was ready to hear them, the birds were kept in a darkened bedroom of Portland's Heathman Hotel, occasionally fed oily black rape seed that their voices might be mellow. By teams of four, then singly, Judge Taylor had them brought into another room, where bright light made them burst into song. If they were reticent, he shook a wooden rattle, coaxed, "Come on, boy." Listening for Rolls, Gluckes, Bells, Schokels, Flutes, and for faults...