Word: diego
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When the artist saw the reproduction of a sketch for Diego Rivera's new mural. The Nightmare of War and the Dream of Peace (TIME, March 17), he was angered by the symbolism that glorified Russia and derided the U.S. Translating his wrath into action, he picked up brush and palette, set to work on the painting shown here...
...vehicles a month has zoomed to 1,000 a day. Even the new peak is expected to double after next June, when the connecting Hart Highway from the West Coast is completed. That will cut off a 900-mile detour and give traffic from as far south as San Diego, Calif, direct access to the Yukon and Alaska...
Last November Petersen and Medley let fellow hot-rodders have a preview of Saturday Night Drag Race over the loudspeakers at the Paradise Mesa Drag Strip in San Diego, and the rodders "got all shook up." Consensus: "Man, that really comes on like a bomb," "Greatest invention since the wheel," "Real catbird," etc. Last week, as a result, record counters across the nation began filling up with material for a new musical mania...
Back in 1927, T. (for Tubal) Claude Ryan got a telegram that seemed to ask the impossible: Could he build a plane that was capable of flying nonstop from New York to Paris? Ryan, a happy-go-lucky ex-barnstormer and head of a tiny airplane plant in San Diego, casually wired back that he could. A few days later, a lanky pilot named Charles A. Lindbergh walked into his hangar, offered him $15,000 if he could do the job in 60 days. Two months later, the Spirit of St. Louis was completed...
Fireballs. Ryan, who had started flying at the age of 20 and had run one of the first commercial airlines (between San Diego and Los Angeles), then started a moneymaking school for transport pilots. In the depths of the Depression, he started building planes again. His low-winged, metal Sport Trainers took acrobatic and speed prizes all over the world, and brought in enough orders to keep his company busy. In 1939, Ryan Aeronautical Co. landed its first U.S. Army contract to build training planes...