Word: air
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most parts of North America the warm, smoggy air would continue to rise and the winds would disperse it. But Los Angeles' upper air, instead of getting progressively cooler at higher levels, has a peculiar temperature inversion. There is a warm layer, usually at 1,000 to 3,000 ft., which sits on the smog. Prevailing winds from the Pacific High cannot readily blow the heavy cloud away to the east because of the mountains which half ring the city...
Born of War. Dr. Louis McCabe, director of the Los Angeles County Air Pollution Control District, was in no mood last week to wait for the scientists to develop elaborate new testing techniques, try them out and finally announce their findings. When McCabe's job (policing the air) was created 18 months ago, the crime of air pollution had been on the increase for seven years-ever since war orders made Los Angeles a small-parts arsenal. With near-dictatorial powers to shut down plants which disobey his smoke-curbing orders, McCabe has persuaded industry to appropriate $10 million...
...direct result of smog, and that when he solves the smog problem, Angelenos will be able to stop dabbing their eyes. He has asked the county government to let him set an absolute limit on the total weight of waste products which factories can throw into Los Angeles' air each...
...First two: Cinemogul Charles P. Skouras, $985,300; Cinemactor Humphrey Bogart, $467,351. *No kin to Robert Hall, a name plucked from the air...
Best Comedian: Groucho Marx in You Bet Your Life (ABC), "the only man on the air who can work without a script and bat off a brilliant succession of witticisms...