Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Horsepower. In San Diego, Used Car Dealer O. B. Davey sold a "show horse'' to Stephaniek Friedman (14), had to give back $2,363 after she complained in court that the horse had a lame foot, a plastic...
Archibald Lee Moore, light-heavyweight champion of the world, kept the transcontinental call properly terse. "You wanna fight Willi Besmanoff in Louisville the night before the Derby?" asked Archie's manager in New York. "How much?" asked Archie in San Diego. "Ten thousand." Said Archie: "I'll be there...
CLYDE BURROUGHS San Diego...
...bills. Mortgage payments were due on the $9,300 house he had bought three months earlier, and the bank was prepared to foreclose. Then up popped the young man's fairy godmother in the bureaucratic guise of the California Division of Highways. Negotiators informed him that the San Diego Freeway was headed through his living room. Twenty days before the bank was to take the house, the State of California paid $10,999 for it. The young man saved his $600 equity and recovered the $700 he had spent on a patio. He satisfied his debts, found another house...
...hunting runs and part of one of his eleven polo fields. He got $2,000,000, considered that hardly adequate for a stretch of choice land. In the Los Angeles suburb of Westchester, Aircraft Mechanic Roger Ransom will probably lose the back tenth of his lot to the San Diego Freeway. He has been offered $900, considers that hardly adequate for the spot where his orchard was going to grow. Some 15 miles west of Santa Rosa, N.Mex., on widening Highway 66, Moises Lucero lost the bar, gas station and dance-hall which he bought seven years ago with...