Word: bernardino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...popped its red head over the San Bernardino Mountains early one morning last week, the main strength of the U.S. Fleet stood out of San Pedro and San Diego harbors, went nodding up the California coast with torpedo-shaped, mine-cutting paravanes hung from every grey prow and all hands at battle stations. In the preceding preparatory weeks the West Coast had thrilled to the report that, although not a shot was to be fired, the Fleet had taken aboard almost its wartime ammunition load. Thus began Fleet Problem XVI, grandest Naval maneuver in U.S. history. whose scene and scope...
...Artur Schnabel. But Carnegie was not too big for Pianist Ruth Slenczynski last week. Three thousand New Yorkers were delighted to pay to hear a child so confident that she will attempt the weightiest music, so pert that she will suggest a different tempo to an experienced conductor like Bernardino Molinari...
...more right to be vexed at the impudence of a San Bernardino Naturopath named Emerson B. Hartman than William Bradley Coley, mightily esteemed Manhattan cancer specialist. Naturopath Hartman advertises himself: ''CANCER SPECIALIST using the ANTITOXIN that has CURED the worst cancers known." Although his "antitoxin" is the stuff which Dr. William Frederick Koch, a discredited Detroit physician, exploits, the specious idea behind it skulks in the shadow of the very real cures of certain kinds of bone cancer which Dr. Coley has been able to make with a toxin...
California's annual midwinter orange festival in San Bernardino has its queen. The State's annual lemon show has none. The suntanned girls of San Bernardino who hope and pray to be Queen of the Oranges, will not compete for Queen of the Lemons. But in East Texas last week a trim 17-year-old belle of Jacksonville did not hesitate to come forward and be crowned Queen of the Tomatoes. By proclamation of Governor Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson, last week was the first "National"' Tomato Week, sponsored by the East Texas and Jacksonville Chambers of Commerce, blessed...
When Entomologist Bogue went to San Bernardino County Hospital to teach after the War, he learned that hordes of the ladybirds were being rounded up in the mountains and brought down to police vegetable gardens in the valleys, but that none were shipped out of California because they were so perishable. He began to experiment. Three years ago he discovered that in a temperature of 42° and a constant and definite humidity, the bugs would live indefinitely without feeding, could be shipped long distances. But even when warmed up the ladybird beetle is too temperamental to breed in captivity...