Word: madera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wires must be expensively rerouted through a tunnel west of the dam. A long system of canals and transverse ditches will be dug, to carry water not only to Sacramento Valley farmers but far south into the San Joaquin Valley, whence waters have been diverted to thirsty Madera, Fresno, Tulare, Kings and Kern counties...
...Fuller, of Hudson Ohio; Frederick W. Heckel, 3d., of Wrightsville, Pennsylvania; Lawrence M. Levinson, of Chattanooga, Tennessee; Allen E. Puckett, of Chicago Heights, Illinois; Joseph S. Harvin, of Fort Worth, Texas; Walter J. Bate, of Richmond, Indiana; Richard R. Beatty, Jr., of Kansas City, Missouri, Clayton J. Clawson, of Madera, California; Edger L. Haff, Jr., of Fort Edward, New York; Martin Lichterman, of Brooklyn, New York; William W. Minton, of Middletrow, Ohio; Walter P. Neumann, of New Britain, Connecticut; John Nevins, of New York City; and Harold L. Pinansky, of Portland, Maine...
...Only source in the world developed to produce helium in sufficient quantities for airship purposes is a Government-owned natural gas field at Amarillo, Tex. Last week Navy officials awaited confirmation of a report from California, that an oil well in Madera County was yielding nearly pure helium. Scientists were skeptical for two reasons: 1) Exhaustive tests had convinced them that California gases are not helium-bearing. 2) When tested for lift, "helium" often turns out to be nitrogen or carbon dioxide...