Word: los
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common with the rest of arid Southern California, Los Angeles lusted for more. Its County Board of Supervisors eyed the ocean-it suggested a prize of a million dollars for the man who could provide a process for distilling sea water cheaply enough to make its use practical. It got letters from prison inmates, housewives, inventors, crackpots, from all over the country, from Holland, India, England, Australia and half a dozen other foreign lands...
None of them gave the right answer. But Angelenos were sure that the problem -and all the rest of the city's problems-would be solved in good time. They had to be. City planners expect a population of 6,000,000 in greater Los Angeles by 1970. Less cautious citizens call the planners pikers, are certain that the city will eventually be the biggest in the world. And after that? Undoubtedly, its boosters mused, it would have another boom...
...Mexico complained that the U.S. already owned 54,000 square miles-about 44% of the state's total area*-counting seven national forests, a national park, the vast Los Alamos atomic energy layout and the Armed Forces Special Weapons installation east of Albuquerque...
...Clarlc, Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson, and Air Secretary Stuart Symington, made a safe emergency landing. After an hour's delay at Columbus, they commandeered a Navy plane and took off for St. Louis to keep a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner date. Next day the Veep flew on to Los Angeles in a regular commercial airliner...
...ruling. CAB, said the court, would have to conduct hearings first. After six months of intermittent hearings, CAB was still of the same mind: Standard was too regular. It had told customers that it operated a daily flight from San Francisco to Chicago; it had conducted flights from Los Angeles to New York "on an average of all but two days of each week...