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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred Los Angeles women were known to be blind or partly so with cataracts last week as result of taking dinitrophenol to reduce. That drug, whose weight-reducing properties were first cautiously utilized by San Francisco doctors (TIME, July 31, 1933), is illegally and secretly sold in California under the following names: Nitromet, Dinitrolac, Nitra-phen, Dinitriso, Formula 281, Dinitrose, Noxben-ol, Re-du, Aldinol, Dinitrenal, Pre-scription No. 17, Slim, Dinitrole, Tabolin, Redusols. Against them Los Angeles Health Officer John Larrabee Pomeroy last week initiated an elimination drive...
Occidental College (Los Angeles...
...healthful and palatable drinking water, some 70,000,000 people in the U. S. are dependent on a scattered army of obscure technicians: the superintendents of urban waterworks. Last week 1,200 members of the American Water Works Association gathered in convention at Los Angeles, talked shop, complained about their pay, behaved themselves. A solemn and sober group, the waterworks superintendents are famed among hotelmen and convention solicitors for the fact that they almost never do any damage. In their convention lobby they gazed earnestly at water tinkling through complete model systems; at a scale model of Los Angeles...
Loyola University (Los Angeles...
Thus if Mrs. John Jones moved from Chicago to Los Angeles, any good Los Angeles store could quickly learn how promptly she paid her bills in Chicago. It might learn that she was a widow of 40 with no children, enjoyed no visible means of support, lived in swank apartments, entertained unsavory characters, was late with her rent, lived in Chicago for only two years and left with $500 of unpaid bills. In that case Mrs. Jones would have a hard time opening a charge account in Los Angeles...