Word: los
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Verdict. In Los Angeles, George Leingang was convicted of grand theft and fined $1,000 for selling "worthless oil land," four years later made a $1,000,000 strike...
Clean Living. In Los Angeles, nine rooming-house tenants complained in court that Landlady June Gilbert not only charged exorbitant rents but persisted in sleeping in the bathtub...
Facing the storm, most butchers professed to find no appreciable change in their trade. Said a Kansas City butcher: "They're all hollering, but they're all buying." Others admitted sales had dropped off, in some cases 35% to 50%. In Los Angeles, 34 small butchers were forced to close. But prices did not budge...
...Los Angeles,"after three years of marriage, Dick Powell, 44, baby-faced crooner turned cinema tough, and June Allyson, 24, baby-faced cinemingenue, adopted a two-month-old baby girl...
Next to London's weather, the thing that bothered Californians most was the look on Londoners' faces; to West Coasters they seemed vaguely uninterested in life. One night on a London bus, a Los Angeles miler turned a somersault and hung upside down from two straps. "It worked," he boasted later. "Their mouths dropped open all the way down to their knees...