Word: oaklanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oakland, Calif...
Again & again the past three weeks a twin-motored Boeing 247-D transport took off from Oakland airport, circled lazily in the California sun, came in swiftly to a perfect landing. Each time the pilot, who could see nothing outside because canvas covered the windows, ignored wheel and rudder bar completely, merely twiddled a few knobs on the dashboard. Last week, with this technique producing 24 perfect landings out of every 25 at empts, United Airlines announced it had finally devised a practicable method of landing "blind...
...University of Wisconsin, found herself interested in labor problems after the War. In 1924 she went to England, joined the Labor Party. Now married to Roger N. Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union, she lives with him and her two children by a previous marriage at Oakland, N. J., raises chrysanthemums, plays bridge, has six Scottish terrier pups...
Jean G. Peter '23, of the William T. Aldrich Co., architects, as Instructor in Architecture; Joseph B. Birdsell, 1G., of Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology '31, as Assistant in Anthropology; and Donald J. Grout, of Melrose, Mass., now teaching at Mills College, Oakland, Calif., Syracuse '23, as Assistant in Music and Tutor...
...Oakland, Calif., newshawks discovered Negro Jack Dempsey Washington Tyler, "scientific sewer cleaner and turtle trainer." Jack Dempsey Washington Tyler's trained turtles will go through anything in order to reach a pinch of powdered flies. He hitches them to a small metal plow, sends them through clogged drains...