Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eighty minutes later Pilot Claude banked the big DC-6 into line with the twinkling lights of Love Field's long north-south runway, lowered the wheels and wingflaps for landing. Suddenly the outboard right engine sputtered and died. The two good engines bellowed as he poured power to...
"Perfume Junction." Only two Congressmen had to be carried off ships in a state of intoxication, only one threw all his luggage out a train window, and only two lost their pants (in a Spanish train), and complained about it publicly.
It was the most persistent smog in Los Angeles history; the yellow-grey pall had hung over the city for more than two weeks, shutting off the sunshine, befouling the famed Southern California air and stinging the eyes of outraged thousands. Angelenos were not only appalled but furious. Pasadena property...
The effect of all this suggested a dangerous possibility: smog would soon be so valuable to the publicity men, radio gag writers and others who now make their living off jokes about Los Angeles' dry river bed and rare snowstorms, that support of antismog ordinances would be regarded as...
Government agents had kept watch on merchants' prices, had set rents at a modest $44 a month for a five-room house (including heat), had fended off crime, slums and commercialized sin. And Richlanders didn't even have any local taxes to pay: the Government made up the...