Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city hall, school, postoffice and Odd Fellows building lay in desolate heaps. At Artesia another school burned. At San Diego radios went off and the First National Bank's burglar alarm went on. Throughout the area trains had all halted where they were to prevent derailment. In San Pedro Harbor the cruiser Northampton, feeling a sharp tug on her anchor chain, got up steam in readiness...
...Manhattan, Citizen Herbert Hoover made a hurried call to Pasadena, learned that his wife and Herbert Jr. were uninjured. From Washington President Roosevelt wired Governor Rolph: "If anything is needed wire me at once. Trust preliminary reports are exaggerated." The President ordered the fleet off San Pedro and San Diego to give...
...scope of the story.* Treading their way across roads strewn with wreckage, reporters looked in vain for the nocturnal orchard of cherry-colored lights on the derricks of the great Signal Hill oil field. All lights were out. But two tanks at the Union Oil Co. refinery in San Pedro were ablaze...
...Pedro, Calif., cash became more plentiful when U. S. paymasters distributed $500,000 pay to the 30,000 men and officers of the U. S. fleet. At Calexico silver pesos from over the border supplemented the currency available. In Michigan, Canadian money helped out. Elsewhere street car tickets and telephone slugs were...
...Fleet Problem No. 14, and the Scouting Force, Black raiders, met off California last week, went through 36 hours of terrific mimic fighting. The Black fleet of cruisers and carriers were strong aloft, weak afloat. The Blues had all the battleships. Black bombers from a divided force peppered San Pedro and San Francisco but heavy Blue guns (firing 1-lb. blanks) took make-believe toll on the Lexington and Saratoga. Most unexpected occurrence in the "war" was a flash from the Navy Department in Washington ordering the battleships Arizona and West Virginia to consider themselves suddenly torpedoed...