Word: fernando
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet by four feet, weigh 1,800 Ib. For these top hatches in the airplane are necessary, with tracks along which platforms are rolled to distribute the load evenly in the fuselage. To the job P. A.G. assigned one plane, an old, all-metal, tri-motor Ford (the San Fernando), calculated it would take 500 trips carrying a ton at a time, and expect to have the last load laid down in Tipuani Valley within 100 days. The saving in time over burros and porters is estimated at seven years, eight months; each trip taking 28 minutes against the mule...
...California became unpopular and they were ousted. Their work was taken over by brown-cassocked Franciscans under the leadership of 54-year-old Fray Junipero, who had been born in Majorca, missionized in Mexico, learned the tongue of the Fame Indians and taught at the college of San Fernando...
Muni is dreamy, sensitive, unpractical. When he bought a ranch in San Fernando Valley he mistook the irrigation stand-pipes for flower pots and planted geraniums in them. When the water was turned on, the geraniums flew into the air. He sold the ranch last spring for a hilltop home in Palos Verde, where he swims in his pool, plays with his dog and looks through a telescope at ships on the Pacific. He is never seen in Hollywood nightspots and takes no part in actors' disputes. He attended the mass meeting of the Screen Actors Guild last...
Divorced. Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, Count of Covadonga, 30, heir to the non-existent Spanish throne; by his estranged Countess, the former Cuban commoner Edelmira Sampedro; in Havana. Grounds: "Abandonment of domicile." She was awarded $100-a-month alimony, the right to all gifts he gave her%#151principally $3,000 worth of jewelry. The Count cheered lustily, shouted "I'm free again," embraced Fiancee Marta Rocafort...
...Ameche (rhymes with peachy) lives on a San Fernando Valley ranch, drives ten miles into town for dinner because he finds his home "too lonely." He is almost 6 ft. tall, 170 lb., fond of practical jokes of which his fellow professionals frequently make him the victim. Accused of being dull in his love scenes, Ameche has given cinemagazines the following alibi: "Valentino was the impetuous type . . . then he would slow up and make the ladies chase him. Mrs. Ameche would not care for this type of lover...