Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Los Angeles County Hospital a student nurse, who apparently contracted infantile paralysis from an undetected case in the hospital, spread the disease through the nurses' quarters. Last week 20 infected nurses were under quarantine, while 40 others showed suspicious prodromal symptoms...
...products on which the store can make a profit. But "loss leaders" become a large hole in the profit bucket when customers throng a store to buy only the "loss leader" and nothing else. Forcefully last week was this axiom brought home to scores of cut-rate storekeepers in Los Angeles, home of some of the fiercest price wars...
Under NRA, shopkeepers were not supposed to sell goods at less than cost. The moment the Blue Eagle was struck down, some Los Angeles grocers began offering "loss leaders" at 25% or more below cost. Their more conservative competitors called protest meetings, loudly thumped for a continuance of "fair practices." The cut-raters stood their ground and all grocery prices began...
...have it on the authority of Mr. Charles J. Lick, General Manager of Los Angeles Brewing Co., and Dr. Charles F. Sebastian, that Gough immediately went to the Georgia Street Receiving Hospital in Los Angeles to be weighed and examined, as he had been on March 30 when he began his beer diet test. He had just let the 7,000-lb. beer truck loaded down with the entire Hollywood baseball team ride over his chest to indicate his sustained vitality. Dr. Sebastian reported Gough physically fit in every respect, whereupon the Legionnaire strongman was whisked to the Los Angeles...
Died. Willard Van Brunt, 88, philanthropist, retired manufacturer of Horicon, Wis.; after falling and breaking his hip on his yacht last fortnight; in Los Angeles. Last month to 95 of his old employes he distributed $205,000 in U. S. baby bonds (TIME...