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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...value of an acre of primary watershed in Los Angeles County is valued by the Federal Board of Review at $971. In 1924 a great fire destroyed the growth on over 60,000 acres in this area. That year after the heavy floods the assessed value of land directly south was written off the tax records by some $10,000,000. The water level of reservoirs and wells dropped to an alarming level as far south as Long Beach. In the light of such facts the statement that the preservation of the growth on these watersheds is "useless...
Stevedores sweated and loading cranes whirred in Los Angeles harbor last week as the warm dry hold of the Dorothy Luckenbach was lined with case after case of oranges all apparently blighted by a sickly pallor. When 7,500 cases were stowed aboard the freighter nosed out of the harbor on a fortnight's voyage to Manhattan...
...Long Beach, Calif., in a regatta organized by Los Angeles promoters, University of Washington beat Yale, sprint champion in the East, by six feet, over the 2,000-meter Olympic course. Nearest thing to a 1933 substitute for the canceled Poughkeepsie regatta, the race was won against a crisp bow wind in 6:38 4/5 -10 sec. off the Olympic record...
With the score $100,200 against "Power Trust"-hating Mr. Hearst, Lawyer Hogan & Co. prepared to march on to Los Angeles in September for the next trial in their chain libel action...
...coast to coast. The Hollywood Bowl concerts, run by a new group of sponsors called the Symphonies Under the Stars Foundation, were definitely scheduled to open with reduced admission prices and a new series of twilight concerts on Sundays. Bickering about musicians' pay had finally been settled and Los Angeles felt pleased with the prospect of 32 summer concerts...