Word: smog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reaction was immediate. "An outstanding event," said the Sunday Times. "Visual journalism at its best," said the South Wales Echo. "A winner," said the London Evening News. Just Looking. Once a month since then, Report has ranged the U.S. scene. One report managed to tell without bragging how the smog was licked in Pittsburgh. How America Shops showed a husband popping bottles into his wife's shopping basket on their way around a supermarket, another woman wandering interminably, "just looking," until she can no longer contain herself and launches into a frenzy of impulse buying. A Report...
They are well-lighted, pastel-tinted and smog-free (there is no heavy industry), and their signs cry out familiar brand names: Remington Rand, Sylvania, Paper-Mate, U.S. Rubber, Textron, Maidenform, A.S. Beck, Carborundum, Van Raalte, Bostitch, Sunbeam...
...womanpower, as the number of working wives reached a record 11.8 million. Short-handed business men competed like football scouts for new talent. In Eastern newspapers a West Coast manufacturer pleaded, "Come to sunny Southern California," while in Los Angeles papers an East Coast plant advertised, "Come to smog-free Long Island...
...note this in TIME [Sept. 26]: "Los Angeles Smog: the serious indirect consequences on health, etc." One of the earliest references to smog can be found in the Chinese prose-poem by Sung...
...native New Yorker myself, now residing in sunny California, I can readily attack any criticism of N.Y.'s public service departments. I have never seen a city with such a well-regulated rubbish or cleaning service. As for clean air, if New York ever had Los Angeles' smog problem, believe me, it would have been rectified long...