Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world-wide working people's organization for better-spent leisure. At Berlin is located an International Central Office for Work and Joy, presided over by Dr. Robert Ley, the German Labor Front-Leader. This bureau grew out of two World Congresses for Recreation, the first in Los Angeles in 1932, the second in Hamburg in 1936. The third-with the name now changed by Dr. Ley to the World Congress for Work and Joy-was held last week in Rome...
...they could drop shells in Gibraltar but yet are invisible from the highest point on the rock": nine naval-type guns are located on Punta Carnero, on the west side of Gibraltar bay, and at least one 15-inch weapon on a high peak near Alcála de los Gazules, some 40 miles inland; 45 more guns, ranging in size from six to 15 inches, have been set up in Spanish Morocco, on the African coastline directly across from the fortress...
Born to Cinemactress Joan Blondell and her Cinemactor-Husband Dick Powell: a daughter, her second child, his first (last February he adopted her 3-year-old son); in Los Angeles. Name: Ellen; weight...
...blazed brightly all night in the building occupied by Amadeo Peter Giannini's giant Bank of America. The bank's 493 branch managers were telephoning in reports, and statisticians were preparing to issue Bank of America's six-month financial statement. Few days before, six major Los Angeles banks, pleading hard times, cut their maximum interest rates on time and savings deposits from 2% to 1½%, but Mr. Giannini swore up & down he would not cut his. "A. P." did not need to, he boasted, for Bank of America was making its greatest profit in years...
...wonderful place to grow up in. The prosperous mines shipped as much as $200,000 worth of bullion a month. The native workmen were contented, friendly, pleased with their steady wages, the company store, the hospital, the electric lights, respectful toward the manager El Patron Grande and his sons, Los Patroncitos. The countryside was beautiful, with orange trees growing within high hacienda walls, with the swift Batopilas rushing beside the house, with ruins left by the Spaniards, who had worked the mines...