Word: smog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles came down last week with the worst case of that chronic big-city ailment, smog. Though usually its immediate effects are only smarting eyes and sore throats, smog can have serious indirect consequences, including traffic accidents, respiratory trouble, possible (though not proved) influence on lung cancer. Scientists measure the strength of a smog bout by the amount of ozone in the air. If the ozone count ever reaches 1.5 parts per million, public health officials fear disaster. The Los Angeles smog last week reached 0.90. California's Governor Goodwin Knight stood ready to declare the city a disaster...
...Angeles Times managed a wry smile in a cartoon that showed Paul Chabas' famed September Morn adapted to local conditions (see cut). But smog had stopped being a joke. City health officials banned use of Los Angeles' millions of backyard incinerators, except on weekend mornings. If the smog got worse, they planned to shut down all refineries, possibly halt the sale of gasoline, to stop air contamination. But scientists are not sure just how the air is contaminated. While greyed-out Los Angeles was doing battle, a Minneapolis meeting of smog fighters from all over the U.S. suggested...
...Your article was good, but why do you suggest that all of the people moved out there to escape the smog and traffic here in Los Angeles? You know darn well that New York City has as much smoke and traffic as we do. And when you wrote of the desert, why didn't you tell about the sand storms and the wind that blows and blows each night, and that terrible heat-like a blowtorch...
...Dreams. With the increasing pool of skilled workers, payrolls are swelling at desert plants and industries. The wartime installations, now permanent, compete for workers with newer desert arrivals such as the $50 million complex of chemical and metal plants at Henderson, Nev. Aircraft workers, fleeing the smog and traffic of Los Angeles, find work with North American, Lockheed or Northrop at new assembly and testing plants on the Mojave...
Town & Country. Doctors who doubt or deny a cause-and-effect relation between cigarette smoking and lung cancer have always seized on the fact that death rates from this disease are higher in the cities than down on the farm. Therefore, they argue, the cause must be smog or exhaust fumes, or simply the sinful exhalations of mass man. They may be half right, but no more, according to Dr. Hammond's figures: the smaller a man's home town, the less likely he is to smoke cigarettes heavily. This accounts for part of the urban-rural difference...