Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mammysinger Al Jolson was for the third time elected mayor of Encino, a Los Angeles suburb...
Irked when a naval officer danced up to him in Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove and abused first his cigar, then his character, Band Leader Benjamin Anzelvitz (Ben Bernie) dropped to the dance floor, knocked out his tormentor...
...stroke of twelve one midnight last week the Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light acquired twp big generating stations, 7,600 mi. of line, 185,000 new customers and 800 new city employes. Few days before at a large 7 a. m. breakfast in the Los Angeles City Hall cafeteria, the Power Bureau's general manager, Ezra Frederick Scattergood, had handed President Addison Blanchard Day of Los Angeles Gas & Electric Corp. a check for $46,340,000. Private Powerman Day had handed Public Powerman Scattergood a deed to all his company's electric properties free & clear of debt...
...Private Powerman Day the official transfer was doubly trying. It occurred on the 42nd anniversary of his entrance into the company as a gas salesman. He still had the gas half of Los Angeles Gas & Electric, which is a subsidiary of Pacific Lighting Corp., but the electric business had been sliced off clean. "It was forced on us," said he bitterly. "There was nothing we could do. It broke my heart...
While in Georgia, serious Mr. Scattergood got to pondering the spectacle of water power running to waste in a State which was economically top-heavy with agriculture. In the Los Angeles of 1901 he found an ideal spot to check his answer: an area planned and integrated "by the application of engineering knowledge to develop the community for the ultimate good of humanity...