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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WILLIAM J. EDWARDS Los Angeles, Calif...
...Into a Los Angeles municipal courtroom was wheeled a stretcher bearing Busby Berkeley, No. 1 Hollywood creator of bizarre cinemusicomedy dance effects. Eyes tightly closed, Dance Director Berkeley winced as a clerk read a grisly account of an automobile accident three weeks ago in which two people were killed, five seriously injured, Berkeley himself badly cut & bruised. Witnesses testified that Motorist Berkeley whizzed down Roosevelt Highway one night, cut out of line, crashed headlong into one car, sideswiped another. Some said they smelled liquor on his breath. "In my estimation a crime greater than manslaughter has been committed," said...
...Good Humor is a diminutive brick of ice cream coated with chocolate or coconut and frozen onto a stick. It is sold on roadsides in and about New York. Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Miami, Tulsa, Detroit, Newark, Dallas and New Haven by young men with bright smiles. The young men have either neat white trucks or dry-ice boxes...
...little industry began to expand. In 1932, 14,000,000 Good Humors were sold in New York and Chicago and, although no figures are given, sales have probably gone higher. All the Good Humors earn money directly for Good Humor Corp. of America except those sold in Los Angeles, Tulsa, Miami and Dallas. Manufacturers in those four cities are licensed by Mr. Meehan's company on a royalty basis. Production is simple. Good Humor uses the best ice cream and chocolate, charges 10¢. It expends its ingenuity on merchandising...
...Los Angeles, "Junior Collegian...