Word: smog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dirt and grime alone are not responsible for Los Angeles' notorious, eye-stinging smog. The real villain is Southern California's much-touted sunshine, reports the Stanford Research Institute after a seven-year study...
Stanford's researchers have yet to discover exactly how ozone is formed. But they believe that it results from a photochemical reaction of sunlight and unknown materials in the air. Furthermore, as ozone increases, so does smog. Los Angeles' sunshine has made the atmosphere the most ozone-laden in the world: as high as 80 parts per 100 million parts of air. The solution to the Los Angeles smog problem, according to the Stanford scientists: find out which materials react with the sun to form ozone, filter them out before they reach the open...
Continuing where the Stanford researchers left off, the Los Angeles area last week was launched on its biggest, most desperate smog investigation. For three months, during the height of the smog "season," scientific teams will analyze some 700 air samples each day at ten different sampling stations spread through the area, will attempt to discover exactly what causes smog to form and how it spreads its grimy pall across the landscape. Cost of the investigation...
Cincinnati is also busy with air samples. A paper filter exhibited at the center last week was black with filth from local air, which had been sucked through it. Doctors have seen that the city's curve of smog concentrations matched the curve of deaths from heart and respiratory disease. Each day the center receives filters, coated with air pollutants collected by the same process in 23 other U.S. cities, for analysis and comparison. Right now, the Fort Worth filters are tan from wind-borne topsoil. Those from Detroit and Los Angeles show that, at rush hours, the lead...
...strike was quiet and orderly, almost friendly. Members of Kankoro (the government workers' union, mostly railway and communications employees) were out for a 15% pay increase and a year-end bonus of two months' pay instead of one. In Tokyo's mauve smog, the ruddy flames of the strikers' torches and the yellow glow of their Japanese lanterns mingled with the downtown neon lights. Blue-helmeted police grinned at the Kankoro paraders and chatted amiably. Chances for a favorable settlement were good: Prime Minister Yoshida's conservative coalition government knew that the workers needed...