Word: monterey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Monterey, Calif...
...refurbish the Lurline, Matson Navigation Co. had laid out close to $19,500,000, more than twice the ship's original cost. The heavy expense forced Matson to shelve plans for rebuilding her two sister ships, the Mariposa and the Monterey. Even the Lurline was a gamble as competition from the airlines (Pan American and United Air Lines) has cut deeply into Matson's business...
Adaptable. In Monterey, Calif., Joe Gilliland lost his auto license after three arrests for drunken driving, was presently jolted into the ditch while doing some drunken horse-&-buggy driving...
Golfer Bing Crosby was elected to buy champagne at the Cypress Point clubhouse on Monterey Peninsula, Calif. On the 16th hole-222 yards, with a 200-yard carry-over across an inlet of the Pacific-he shot a hole-in-one. "We were shooting into the sun," he explained to the press afterward. "So I just stood up and smacked one blind...
...Citizens of Monterey, Calif, were off on a new gold hunt. In a week of digging with hands, rakes, shovels and a bulldozer, they recovered upwards of $4,000 in gold pieces from a vacant lot which was once owned by a wealthy farmer who distrusted banks...