Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After gloomily pronouncing Manhattan an unmusical city, big, brooding Otto Klemperer boarded a train for Los Angeles last week to take command of a Philharmonic Orchestra where audiences roundly hail him as a hero. During a 13-week session the towering German had led the New York Philharmonic through many a scholarly performance. In his wake a Carnegie Hall concert was called for 8:45 p. m. At 8:44 p. m. there came sauntering through the stage entrance a short, top-heavy man with piercing brown eyes, a militant goatee, a bland, self-assured manner. It was Sir Thomas...
...last. In Hollywood, characters like Charlie Chaplin, Helen Twelvetrees, Joel McCrea, Mrs. Frank Borzage, have become skiing devotees. At the University of California, three years ago, Alexander Hildebrand, son of Chemistry Professor Joel Hildebrand, was the only competent practicing skier. Now not only California, but University of California at Los Angeles. Southern California and Nevada have ski teams, plan to compete with those of the University of Washington which have long been among the ablest in the U. S. Snow trains, long an established convenience for city skiers in Europe, have suddenly become popular in the U. S. Started...
...high excitement. Truckman John Louis Keeshin 'as excited because as president of Keelin Transcontinental Freight Lines, which in the past few months has spread its operations all over the East (TIME, Sept. 2), he was leading out his first caravan in a test run from Chicago to Los Angeles in five days, Los Angeles to Manhattan in eight...
...California welcomed him with open arms, required only a month's registration fee. Finally, after $3,000 had been thus spent, all was ready. Garnished with $1,000 in travelers' checks, the 13 drivers set out with a 90,000-lb. payload guaranteed for delivery in Los Angeles in five days...
...average of 22 m.p.h., the drivers worked in six-hour shifts, slept six hours in the small trailer. Only stops were for food, gas & oil, examination of permits at each state line. Ten hours were lost in such formalities. So smoothly did everything go that the caravan rolled into Los Angeles in four and a half days, beat the best railroad freight schedule by 46 hours. On hand to greet it was Truckman Keeshin. Flying out at the last minute, he was enormously pleased to spy his gaudy trucks, 8,000 ft. below, cruising through Southern California...