Word: smog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governor of the nation's second largest state, he has played a moderate, mediocre role, with the paradoxical support of organized labor and the L.A. Times --which doesn't hire union members. He blamed smog on incinerators instead of industry, and opposed a "right-to-work" law. He is a pleasant sort of a man, with a likeable grin...
...funeral, hopped up Eleventh Ward followers to turn out the vote, popped up at rallies of the United Steelworkers and the Serbian Progressive Club. Like the latter-day apostle of civic progress that he has become, he never missed a chance to mention his "better Pittsburgh," with its smog-free air, rising skyscrapers, parks, bridges and elevated highways. At 68, running for a fourth term, crusty, cold-eyed Dave Lawrence is one of the last of the old city bosses. At the same time he is the dean of a new breed which realizes that a successful 1957-type politician...
...when the smog descends, my eyes water, my nose clogs up, my throat gets sore, I feel miserable, and work at only half capacity. So I packed up and left and took my business with...
...water. Under way now, with a big push from the Times, is the $2 billion project to bring Feather River water from the northern part of the state 600 miles into Southern California. After that: more schools (needed: a 32-room schoolhouse each week for the next 15 years), smog research, a system to replace the area's laughably inadequate public transportation muddle, better medical and cultural facilities, and -Norman Chandler's pet project-more than 600 miles of new freeways...
...Instruments. In Pasadena, Calif., the Independent printed the weather forecast: "Clear today except for early fog, followed by smog, followed by evening...