Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returned to the U. S. Four years of New York nearly killed him. A nervous wreck, he went back to Santa Monica on crutches where he cured himself with the climate and a sober study of Buddhism. For many years director of the Santa Monica Community Theatre and the Los Angeles Art Students' League, he gradually gave up beard, long hair and artistic mannerisms, adopted a hard, exact manner of drawing that showed a strong Oriental influence...
...check, replied Washington officials, was still in Washington, "awaiting the signature of Governor Merriam of California." Governor Merriam, crackled back Los Angeles officials, was currently doing business in Sacramento, not Washington...
Thus enlightened, Washington officials sped a $2,000,000 check order to Sacramento by telegraph. There it was learned that Governor Merriam was in Long Beach, 500 mi. away. But he would be in Los Angeles at 2 p. m. to sign the check. Southward zoomed the check by airplane. At 2 p. m. Governor Merriam was still in Long Beach, having a tooth pulled. Could his secretary sign for him? No, ruled a Federal official, nobody but the Governor. A messenger leaped into an automobile, roared out to Long Beach with the check. The Governor signed. Another messenger leaped...
...Airways took off in a transport plane with the bodies wrapped in blankets, strapped to cots. The embalming, begun at Point Barrow by Dr. Greist, was completed at Fairbanks. Then Pilot Crosson flew on to Seattle where a change was made to a large Douglas for the trip to Los Angeles. Meanwhile Will Rogers Jr. flew from California to New York to escort his mother, brother and sister back across the continent for the Rogers funeral at Los Angeles...
...piled up 700 hours air time, the Department of Commerce gave him a physical waiver and a license. In 1930 Oilman Hall bought a new Lockheed Vega also called Winnie Mae. In that ship Post quickly got national attention by winning the 1930 Bendix Trophy Race, scooting from Los Angeles to Chicago non-stop in 9 hr. 9 min. With laconic Australian Harold Gatty as navigator, Wiley Post made his first round-the-world flight in 1931 in 8 days 15 hr. 51 min. Two years later, embittered over his failure to get rich, he took off on his second...