Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asian influenza has shown up at scattered points across the U.S., mostly at military centers or big conventions, with relatively few and mild cases. Last week San Diego's Health Officer Julius B. Askew reported the first massive invasion: Navy personnel there had 7,000 cases in a month (no deaths) and civilians 5,000 cases (four deaths from complications). There was no sign that the outbreak was waning...
Died. Admiral Frederick Carl Sherman, 69, U.S.N., ret. (1947), skipper of the World War II aircraft carrier Lexington, and the last to leave her before she finally sank (May 8, 1942) in the Battle of the Coral Sea; of a heart ailment; in San Diego. A World War I submarine commander, "Ted" Sherman (no kin to his fellow admiral, the late Forrest Sherman) learned to fly at 47, took command of the Lexington in 1940. A cool leader under fire, he was a hard-hitting senior task-group commander within the Fast Carrier Task Force, in one four-month period...
...orders, says Bonanza Air Lines' Executive Vice President G. Robert Henry, only nine have been completely financed. Fairchild has taken the remaining orders largely "on good faith." The feeders would also like to buy France's speedy (500 m.p.h.) Caravelle pure jet. But only San Diego's Pacific Southwest Airlines, with three Caravelles on order (at $1,950,000 apiece), has been able to swing a deal...
...course-error needle reads zero. It will take him any place in the world. It will even tell him when a slight change of course or altitude has found a more favorable wind. A common experience for Navy pilots flying with the 67 is to take off from San Diego, navigate across the continent by watching a single needle, and come down through a cloud deck to find the East Coast destination right in front of them...
...Warriors (at 41,000 ft., a top speed of over 600 m.p.h.) and two F8U Crusaders (at plus 45,000 ft., an average speed of 650 m.p.h.) made the first carrier-to-carrier transcontinental flight in history, taking off from Bon Homme Richard at sea near San Diego, landing on Sara 60 miles off northern Florida. Said Ike to one pilot: "You almost got here before you left...