Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as the result of some diligent sleuthing by Professor James N. Tidwell of San Diego State College, the Stanford University Press was able to show the public The Lion of the West for the first time. Tidwell began his search for it in 1947 simply because he thought it might contain the origin of the phrase "up the salt river," meaning "to defeat a man politically." He collected everything he could on Actor Hackett's tours. He scoured the libraries of the Allegheny region, checked with rare-book dealers. Finally a colleague gave him an idea...
When Clinton D. McKinnon, a successful San Diego publisher and businessman, bought the debt-ridden Los Angeles Daily News a year ago, he cheerily admitted that his main objective was to "push the undertaker away from the door." The task was harder than McKinnon realized. In Los Angeles, where five dailies battle for circulation, former Democratic Congressman McKinnon hoped to win readers with the only paper that "reflected the policies of the Democratic Party." But this week the undertaker came in the door...
...GLADYS S. SHEPPARD San Diego...
Coastal radar runs from Vancouver to San Diego on the Pacific, from Labrador to Savannah on the Atlantic. Navy radar picket ships patrol offshore for added warning. Spot local radar nets have been built around critical targets-SAC bases, nuclear weapons centers and great cities. Mostly, the radar line is string-thin. Sometimes stations are closed for repairs. Usually, the radars are beamed high for maximum range, leaving gaps for low-level attack...
...West Coast by the Post Office Department, which now permits 3? airmail between Chicago, Washington, D.C. and New York. The Government will sign contracts with five airlines (American, Trans World, United, Northwest and Western) to fly low-cost mail between 22 western cities along the route from San Diego, Calif, to Seattle, Wash...