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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese denunciation, Admiral Joseph M. Reeves, commanding the U. S. Fleet, announced from his flagship U. S. S. Pennsylvania grand maneuvers next spring in the Northern Pacific by 177 war boats and 447 war planes over 5,000,000 sq. mi. of strategic seaways. Exulted the 100% American Los Angeles Times: "A vast armada, the largest and most powerful by a wide margin ever assembled under a single command in the world's naval history...
...Hollywood last week, the American Society of Cinematographers awarded to two amateur cameramen the prizes which, for owners of miniature movie outfits, correspond to the awards which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences give to cinema professionals. To R. B. Clardy, a Los Angeles commercial artist, went $250 for his 200-ft. film, New Horizon. A 20-year-old Japanese, Tatuschi Okamoto, who won the photography award two years ago, last week took $100 second prize with a picture called Tender Friendship...
...Temple is well paid for taking care of her daughter on the set. For amusement, Shirley wades in the ocean or plays with her two older brothers. Too young (5) to go to school, she studies dancing, takes lessons at her studio from the teacher appointed by the Los Angeles Board of Education to instruct child cinema actors. She has learned to read short words. Her friends are the same she had a year ago, the offspring of her parents' neighbors. Careful of their daughter's dignity, the Temples insist that at all benefit shows she must have...
Married. Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl, 42, ranking survivor of the Shenandoah dirigible crash, who has flown more hours (4,000) in lighter-than-aircraft than any other U. S. flyer; and Jean Wilson, 32, Los Angeles department store buyer; in Manhattan...
Probably the world's most hazardous peacetime occupation is that of test pilot for a company making military aircraft. Lately when famed Builder John K. ("Jack") Northrop of Los Angeles (Lockheed Vega, Northrop Delta) wanted a pilot to test his newest attack plane he found his man in Vance Breese, oldtime mail pilot, barnstormer, test pilot and aviation theorist. To Pilot Breese Builder Northrop offered $8,000 for a 16,000-ft. vertical power-dive. Pilot Breese thought 50 per foot a fair price...