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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1959
Page
3
The Leaning five-story Vanderbilt apartment at 5 Figueroa Street began its final collapse today as wreckers and men’s hammers work from the top. A crowd watches while about 200 tenants who fled Tuesday night return to witness the crumbling 48 year old structure. Steel cables and cranes await to pull the building into adjacent parking lots.
Tran World Airlines plans to inaugurate jet service between New York and San Francisco on March 20. The service will take five hours and 45 minutes from New York to San Francisco and four hours and 40 minutes in the reverse direction.
In London at the Connaught Rooms, 25 insured dogs dine as guests of honor. Waiters in tails serve various meal chunks while owners toast with gin and tonic. The event marks the silver jubilee of the Canine Insurance Association, which reports over half a million dogs insured in 25 years.
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