Word: diego
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Ira Clifton Copley, 66, publisher of Aurora (Ill.) Beacon News, Elgin (Ill.) Courier, Joliet (Ill.) Herald News, Illinois State Journal, San Diego Union and Tribune, onetime (1911-23) Illinois Congressman; and Mrs. Chloe Davidson Worley of Pasadena, Calif.; at Paris, France. Mr. Copley, whose first wife died, and bride began honeymooning on his yacht Happy Days...
...Navy. To begin with, the old identities of the Fleet were abandoned. The U. S. fleet henceforth is composed of four Forces: the Battle Force, based in the Pacific; the Scouting Force, based in the Atlantic; the Submarine Force, based at Pearl Harbor, T. H.. San Diego. Coco Solo, C. Z., New London. Conn. ; the Base Force, divided between Pacific and Atlantic seaboards...
...Fleet had just broken up after battle practice in the Caribbean. On the Atlantic and Pacific, ships swung round, raced for Nicaragua. The hospital ship Relief was off the west coast of Mexico, bound for San Diego. Knowing that every bed would be needed, convalescent sailors went over the side in lifeboats, were transferred to cruisers and destroyers while the Relief plowed south to Corinto...
...Lindbergh. And I am just 25 years old. My grandfather was Swedish, and I am an American. And this aeroplane is the pick of the whole lot. It flies 210 kilometres an hour! Its name is 'The Spirit of St. Louis.' The Ryan Aeroplane Works in San Diego made it up for me in 60 days...
...Mexico, a 14-year-old boy went swimming in the San Diego River. Up surged a huge crocodile and devoured him. Angry peons gathered on the river's brink, laid a dynamite charge, lured the reptile inshore with a pig, touched off the dynamite, blew to bits pig, boy and crocodile...