Word: fresno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plans another whirl about the country to spread the foundation's gospel of opening wide the doors of nature to children ("Did you ever see an uninterested kid in a junior museum?"). At 40, Forbes is far from through. His present targets: museums in San Mateo, San Rafael, Fresno and Stockton. Calif., and a $500,000 permanent endowment for the foundation. "If I were three people." he says. "I couldn't get done what I want done...
Lines of pickets still shuffled by the gates of plants in Los Angeles, Fresno, Calif, and Columbus, Ohio. But the strikers were going back to work in growing numbers, despite the attempts of pickets to knock or kick dents in their cars. North American reported that 10,332 of the men were back on the job again, turning out better than one plane a day. This was about 31% of those who had walked out, well above the 25% figure that usually means a lost strike. The U.A.W. disputed North American's tally, said the company padded the list...
Hardly had North American Aviation, Inc. rolled out the first production model of its new F-100 supersonic Super Sabre fighter last week when all production stopped; Out from the factories at Los Angeles, Fresno, Calif, and Columbus, Ohio marched 27,000 members of the C.I.O. United Auto Workers in the first strike against the company in twelve years...
Matter of Pride. Among the larger cities on the itinerary were New Orleans, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Denver. But the Boston also carried its flag into such towns as El Paso, Texas, Santa Barbara, Fresno, and Sacramento, Calif., and Provo, Utah. Wherever it went, the Boston offered only one standard: the same kind of solid musical fare it plays at home, with generous servings of Brahms, Berlioz, Stravinsky and Honegger...
...Fresno. Calif., Olympic Shotputter Parry O'Brien of the University of Southern California heaved the 16-lb. shot to a new unofficial world record in the West Coast relays. O'Brien's prodigious heave: 59 ft. ¾ in., bettering the 1950 record of Yale's Jim Fuchs by 2% in. ¶ In Rome, Doris Hart, the U.S.'s No. 2 women's tennis player, upset Maureen Connolly...