Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story called for great collaboration. National Affairs Writer Paul O'Neil, who was a reporter for the Seattle Times and Post-Intelligencer before coming to work for TIME, flew to Los Angeles to make his own preliminary investigation of the city. He discussed his impressions with the members of the Los Angeles bureau, who then set to work digging out the facts. Bureau Chief Fritz Goodwin divided the coverage four ways between himself and reporters Alfred Wright, Edwin Rees and James Murray. It was an especially engrossing assignment for all of them because it gave them a chance...
...Angeles is so big that nobody knows all about it-not even Mayor Bowron and his master planners-and many people had to be seen to fit all the parts of the story together. Furthermore, Los Angeles is still changing so rapidly that a month's passage can make facts & figures incorrect. This burgeoning growth was demonstrated by our experiences with the seven photographers who worked for eight weeks taking the color shots for the picture supplement accompanying the story. Having chosen a location for a specific shot or a panoramic view, they were likely to find, on returning...
...safe 50-40, Taft's injunction-seizure amendment won. A.F.L.'s old William Green sent Scott Lucas an angry letter telling him to fight no longer to make "the Taft bill more palatable" since it was already "absolutely unacceptable." This, said Taft, was "probably the most presumptuous statement that any individual has ever made to the Senate...
...slum-clearance program, to which the Government will make a direct contribution of $500 million to help finance local programs, and put up an additional $1 billion in loans...
...next 40 years; 1,050,000 low-rent housing units were ordered up in the next seven years (the Senate's bill would spend only $308 million a year on 810,000 units and the House figures will undoubtedly be adjusted to that in conference). The Government will make up the difference between the artificially low rents and the actual operating costs...