Word: segundo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broderick, Carlfred Bartholomew of 68 Lime Avenue, Long Beach; Long Beach Polytechnic High. Burton, Cyrus Matthew of 129 South Peck Drive, Beverly Hills; Chadwick School, Rolling Hills. Claes, Daniel John of Box 98, El Segundo; El Segundo High. Howell, James Lawson of 5515 Carlton Street, Oakland; Piedmont High, Piedmont...
MacAlpin, Rex Nere of 4056 Stansbury Street, Sherman Oaks; Harvard School, North Hollywood. Maradudin, Aleixei Alexei of 135 West Palm Avenue, El Segundo; El Segundo High. Stokdyk, John Ellis of 702 Hilldale Street, Berkeley; Berkeley High. Twitchell, Robert Spencer of Woodrow Wilson High, Long Beach...
...Segundo, Calif...
Aircraft designers had a wondrous week: ¶ In El Segundo, Calif., the Navy introduced its new Skyrocket, the first man-carrying plane (as distinct from guided missiles) powered by both jet and rocket energy. Built by Douglas, the Skyrocket is a swordfish-shaped, back-swept-winged sister ship of the Navy's Skystreak, present holder of the world's speed record (650.6 m.p.h.). Douglasmen hoped that it would make air history by breaking through the sonic wall-i.e., by flying faster than the speed of sound (about 765 m.p.h. at sea level). ¶ In St. Louis...
About-Face. In El Segundo, Calif., Undertaker John D. Flanagan uncertainly officiated at an unscheduled birth in his private ambulance...