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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks ago M-Day's three wings concentrated in California. There, divided into two warlike combat groups, it played a new kind of war game. Day & night it attacked and defended an imaginary Los Angeles that had been drawn to scale on the desert sands of Muroc Dry Salt Lake (TIME, May 24). Last week when the battle of Los Angeles ended, M-Day's commander, Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews, sat down with his staff to write a confidential report to the War Department of the conclusions his new game had produced. But before...
Refining the devastating White Spanish technique at the blasting of the Basque "Holy City" of Guernica (TIME, May 10), Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews commanding the Muroc air war, had spotted an outline of Greater Los Angeles on the desert with circles and triangles representing such legitimate combatant bomb targets as munitions plants, railheads, bridges. First blood last week went to Brigadier General Gerald C. Brant's attacking force which theoretically blasted the Douglas Aircraft factory at Culver City to bits...
Last week in Los Angeles a Roehm & Haas customer named E. G. Lloyd behaved more spectacularly. Calling in news photographers he pounded Acryloid eyeglasses with a machinist's hammer...
Married. Natalie Cantor, 20, second of Funnyman Eddie Cantor's five daughters; and Joseph Lewis Metzger, 22, Hollywood antique dealer; in Los Angeles...
...annual meeting in Manhattan last week was Samuel Brown Robertson, 59, who went to Goodrich in 1919 after 20 years as a supervising engineer for Pennsylvania Railroad. As director of engineering for the rubber company, big, husky Sam Robertson built the $4,000,000 Goodrich plant at Los Angeles, which is considered a model in the industry...