Word: los
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morgan Kittle announced that the firm would build a $5,000,000 mail order house and retail store in Boston, with a retail store in Cambridge. Construction of another mail order distributing house in Minneapolis will be completed in March. Thus Sears, Roebuck will have distributing plants in Atlanta Los Angeles...
Recently a Californian, one Bernick Linden, made the supreme sacrifice of the booster, and killed himself in Los Angeles, it may be said without irreverence, that others might live in San Diego. This was no deadly jest. For San Diego had a higher suicide rate than its rival, a higher rate, in fact, than any other place in the country. In a region where life is nothing but beautiful girls in bathing suits, and sunny days, existence was too exquisitely delightful, and people were killing themselves out of pure joy on every hand. But Mr. Linden with remarkable insight...
Gladly would Mr. Linden have given more lives to balance the figures of statisticians, but all that he had, he gave, their boosters have sold their souls for their cities, but here is the first man worthy of beatification. The people of Los Angeles will cry that he was bribed shamefully to smirch their reputation, but that is an attitude of cavilling envy. And, indeed, as long as there remains exalted ideas to which a man may consecrate his very life, the charge that modern materialism makes existence crass will thus be nullified...
...Los Angeles, Calif...
...operators with large overhead, were pinched by competition and could buy coal more cheaply than mine it. These, apparently, were reasons why the operators had abrogated the Jacksonville minimum wage agreement of 1924. Secretary of Labor Davis had asserted in October, at the A. F. of L. convention in Los Angeles, that the coal industry is overmanned by 300,000 men (TIME...