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Word: centro (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bound from Oakland, Calif., to El Centro, a chartered Immigration Service plane exploded over Los Gatos canyon, killed 28 Mexican deportees, a crew of three, a guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR AGE: Then Silence | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...Venezuela and Colombia, Standard has several air ambulances to whisk emergency cases from the field to hospitals. Between Barranca and El Centro, Colombia, it operates a unique rail ambulance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medical Good Neighbor | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...front of a grocery store on the main street of Imperial, Calif. Mrs. Mullings and the two children were crossing the sidewalk when Mullings, startled by an unfamiliar noise, looked up, saw the wall of the store crack, disintegrate, crash on the heads of his family. In nearby El Centro, a fire wall tumbled down on Clifford Moore. All through rich Imperial Valley, one night last week, ran the earthquake's shivers. They shook down buildings, cracked open the irrigation canal that carries the Valley's water, let precious water flow out over Mexico. Damage: more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Earthquake | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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