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Word: antismog (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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California's Edmund Gerald Brown, 54, laid his political prestige on the line with a sheaf of legislative proposals, and came through with banners waving. He pushed through a state FEPC, abolished the oddball cross-filing system for party primaries, organized down-to-smokestack antismog attack, raised taxes enough to trim a threatened $201 million deficit to $5,000,000, launched a long-dreamed-of $2 billion waterway program to deliver Northern California's water to Southern California's arid, sunny region (TIME, June 29). He gained effective control of a divided party, has cagily chaperoned visiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS In 1960 Their Big Year | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...ANTISMOG MUFFLER, developed by Inventor Eugene J. Houdry and Pennsylvania's Oxy-Catalyst, Inc., chemically removed up to 90% of auto's unburned exhaust gases in road tests by General Motors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jan. 26, 1959 | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

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