Word: los
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Los Angeles barflies were intrigued by a new diversion: automatic quiz machines. For 5? ginmill intellectuals could try to answer five questions of 6,000 printed on a motion-picture reel...
...staffers of Hearst's Los Angeles Evening Herald & Express wanted to give their boss a birthday present, perhaps a plaid shirt like the gaudy ones he usually wears. Managing Editor John Bayard Taylor Campbell, whose loud & lusty journalism had given the paper (circ. 410,470) its bumptious slogan-"The biggest daily west of Chicago"*-last week was celebrating his 69th birthday and his 50th year in the newspaper business. But when the party-loving reporters got started on the celebration, there was no stopping...
...Names. In Los Angeles, he landed a job as city editor on the run-down Herald, which Hearst had just bought to make war on Millionaire E. T. Earl's evening Express. City Editor Campbell printed his Page One on a green newsprint, and circulation climbed. When the Express imitated his stunt, Campbell headlined: E. T. EARL TURNS GREEN WITH ENVY. The Herald's big break came when the Express tagged Campbell's choice for mayor the candidate of "women of the underworld." Campbell sent reporters out to ask the candidate's clubwomen supporters how they...
...latest (September) Audit Bureau of Circulation figures, the morning Los Angeles Times (412,319) was bigger...
...Pedro, Calif., founded last year by 34-year-old, Austrian-born Fred Miller. A civilian personnel director for the Army Air Forces, Miller joined the Flying Tigers cargo airline after the war and saved $15,000. This was enough to rent four DC-45 and start flying the lucrative Los Angeles-New York route last July. Flying 20 round trips a month at cut-rate fares of $99 ($58.85 under scheduled lines), Air America had carried 11,270 passengers by the end of the year. It had grossed $1,600,000 and netted a tidy $41,000. Miller...