Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wright finished his work in 1920. He was in Los Angeles when the big quake hit Tokyo three years later. After ten days of anxious waiting, Wright learned by cable from his friend and client, Baron Okura, that the building had ridden out the quake unharmed while other modern buildings were shaking their masonry into the streets...
...last week the winter troupers had reached Los Angeles for the high spot of the season-the $5,000 Los Angeles Open, sponsored by the local Times. Warming up for the opening round, on the sunny municipal links at Griffith Park, the top-notch golfers of the U. S., as well as the obscure hopefuls, experienced more than their usual pre-tournament "yips" (Jitters). For this was the No. i tournament of the West Coast and, although it was almost midway in the winter circuit, it was the beginning of a new year and a new race for money-winning...
...Santa Anita race track, 30 minutes from Hollywood, over $100,000 a day goes into the till of its owners, the Los Angeles Turf Club. The Los Angeles Turf Club directors are rich and powerful. Since the day the track came into being three years ago (the year after betting at race tracks was legalized in California), Santa Anita has enjoyed a profitable monopoly in Los Angeles County. Its directors frowned on interlopers. And so, it seemed, did the California Horse Racing Board...
...charges, he consented to an injunction forbidding any further manipulation of Checker Cab, Auburn, or stock of any other company in which Cord Corp. had financial interest. Simultaneously, without any explanation, E. L. Cord abdicated from Cord Corp. entirely (TIME, Aug. 16). Since then he has dabbled in Los Angeles real estate while financial circles have dabbled in all sorts of rumors explaining his abdication. Last week, when SEC suddenly pulled the case out of its files again, astute observers wondered whether Cord's abdication might not have been the price of a deal with SEC whereby he saved...
...Randolph Hearst's ten-station radio chain, the President's second son, Elliott Roosevelt, became a big man in the Hearst empire, charged with full and heavy responsibility for making money out of a $2,000,000 string of stations in Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Waco, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Baltimore, New York, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee. For two years Elliott ably managed Hearst's southwest network and only three months ago took charge of the West Coast outlets. In October (TIME, Nov. 11), Hearst's 27-year-old Radioman Roosevelt announced he would soon branch...