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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CAPTAIN OWEN ERNEST JENSEN 13th Battalion. Fleet Marine Corps Reserve Los Angeles, Calif...
...Boston last autumn, Norman Skelly, 28-year-old Pawtucket, R. I. rollerskating rink proprietor and his friend John Shefuga set out to skate to Los Angeles. They arrived, after covering 4,075 miles, two months and two days later, turned around to hitchhike home. Last week in Manhattan, Skater Skelly proudly exhibited memoranda of the trip. Excerpts...
...Los Angeles in 1926 Brothers Allan and Malcolm Loughead incorporated as Lockheed Aircraft Co. because people mispronounced their name as "loghead." The Lockheed Vega presently rolled off their line, first of a series of single-motored speedsters which set many a record. In 1933 Lockheed developed the fast, twin-motored, ten-passenger Electra, which immediately became as much the darling of little airlines as the 14-passenger Douglas DC2 simultaneously became of big. When the Electra was launched, Lockheed had 200 employes. Last week the payroll was over 1,400, the plant had just been doubled and all factory hands...
...Los Angeles Times was honored last week with first prize in N. W. Ayer's annual award for the best-looking front page among 130 newspapers with 50,000 circulation or over; second: New York Herald Tribune; third: Des Moines Tribune. Among 365 newspapers of 10,000 to 50,000 circulation, first prize went to the Miami, Fla. Herald; second: Glendale, Calif. News Press; third: Hartford, Conn. Courant. †"Neotrist," invented from the Greek, meaning a person who stays young...
...Los Angeles. Ben M. Lefner sued for divorce on the grounds that his wife refused to live anywhere except in a trailer...