Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting. Then, however, A.A.A.S. wisely avoids a single big show, is content with one modest meeting somewhere east of the Rocky Mountains, another modest meeting somewhere along the Pacific Coast. Last week the Pacific division of A.A.A.S., with its collective mind primarily on Earth and its quakes, met in Los Angeles. Simultaneously the major body of A.A.A.S., with its collective mind primarily on Man and his wellbeing, met in Minneapolis...
Divorced. Maurice ("Buddy") Maschke Jr., Cleveland attorney and son of Cleveland's onetime Republican boss; by Helen Morgan, piano-sitting soprano; in Los Angeles. Grounds: he was cruel to her, mistreated her goldfish...
Last week Safeway Stores, largest food distributor in Los Angeles and leader of the fight for fair prices, hit upon a scheme to punish the cut-raters. Full-page advertisements appeared in Los Angeles newspapers announcing that Safeway would pay standard prices for butter, bacon, sugar, shortening and a long list of other items which other grocers were offering as "loss leaders." This meant that housewives could buy "loss leaders" at cut-rate stores, walk around the corner and sell them at a profit to Safeway. Merchandise began pouring into Safeway Stores a few minutes after the early editions carrying...
Since then reports on a few minor crashes have dribbled into the U. S. Press, attracted little attention. Last month TWA's Sky Chief, en route from Los Angeles to Kansas City, cracked up in a Missouri fog, killed both its pilots, three of its eleven passengers including U. S. Senator Bronson Cutting (TIME, May 13). Unable to land at Kansas City because of fog, the plane had proceeded toward a Department of Commerce emergency landing field at Kirksville, Mo., 128 mi. away. About 16 mi. from Kirksville, with only 27 minutes of fuel left, the pilot came down...
...ABOARD, Rock Island Golden State Limited, eight forty-five, for Excelsior Springs, Kansas City, Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston, Dalhart, Santa Rosa, Carrizozo, Alamogordo, El Paso, Douglas, Chandler, Phoenix, Palm Springs, Mexicali, Calexico, Agua Caliente, San Diego, Los Angeles and all points in California. . . . The train is now ready on Track 10 . . . Golden State Limited. . . . ALL ABOARD...