Word: humboldt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peter Ferguson of 312 East College Avenue Waukesha Wis.; Waukesha High. DcMuth, William John of 634 Glenview Street, Street, Wia.; South Division High, Milwaukee. Dennis, Jackson Daniel of 1100 O Avenue N. W. Cedar Rapids, la.; Roosevelt High, Cedar Rapids. Gray, John Walker of 688 Chippewa Street. St. Paul; Humboldt High, St. Paul...
...Panama (33 to 35 days), the perils included yellow fever and cholera. By the Overland and Santa Fe Trails, over which 50,000 traveled in 1849 alone, the trip could take all spring and all summer-and the gold seeker, plodding onward beyond the alkali desert in the Humboldt Valley, thought himself lucky to get across the Sierras* before the first snows...
...Humboldt Bay in northern California lies Arcata, the "world's foggiest airport." Arcata is "socked in" by rain or fog so often (97 days a year) that the U.S. armed forces have made it a base for their all-weather flying experiments, equipped the field with blind landing instruments (both G.C.A. and I.L.S.) and Fido (fog-dispersing oil burners). Through the soup over Arcata one day last December, a Southwest Airways DC-3 made the world's first blind landing with all three systems on a scheduled commercial run. Since then, Southwest, a ten-plane "feeder" line between...
...born in Germany, came to the U.S. with her parents when she was six years old. Harold was the third of four sons. He has one younger sister. His father, now 71, still runs the farm, drives into St. Paul frequently with vegetables. Educated: St. Paul's Humboldt High School (1922); the University of Minnesota (1927); U. of M.'s law school (1929). Married: in 1929 to Esther Glewwe, his childhood sweetheart. Children: Glen, 12; Kathleen, 6. Church: Baptist. Nickname: "Red" (to his old college mates), "Skipper" (to his close political friends...
...Almost no rain falls on the coast. Air masses moving in from the Pacific are cooled crossing the cold Peru (Humboldt) Current, therefore pick up relatively little moisture. Easterly winds strike the Andes, precipitate their moisture on the eastern slopes, leave the coast...