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Growth of an Empire. The feud with labor which Chandler inherited from his father-in-law and pursued relentlessly in the Times kept Los Angeles, until recent years, a strike-ridden city. It also kept the city open-shop, helped Chandler at tract the aircraft and other industries. He promoted vast Los Angeles real-estate developments, wide boulevards, Hollywood, the $60,000,000 artificial harbor at San Pedro, the Coliseum and Hollywood Bowl. Spreading his power and empire through out the Southwest, he became one of the nation's biggest landowners, one of the West's richest...
Seven years ago, after the duck population had dropped to a miserable 30 million, sportsmen formed Ducks Unlimited (Canada) to restore drought-ridden breeding grounds and wage total war on duck-egg-eating crows and magpies. In the battle of the eggs, Ducks Unlimited paid 2? apiece for hundreds of thousands of crow and magpie eggs. In Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Northwest Territories, the conservation group built 130 duck refuges covering 1,200,000 acres...
...palmy days of Smart Set were over, and the depression-ridden Saturday Evening Post no longer had much room for his stories. Johnson had to borrow money to get to the Coast. He is unlikely ever to have to borrow money again...
Then coming home from the excursion the beaut of the day was pulled. As the bus started over the Lars Andersen Bridge an alarmed and Regulation-ridden Curly Drexler shouted for all to attach a line and buoy to their wallets...
...western Burma. (It did not attack, and Lord Louis did not say why.) The Japs "fortunately played into our hands," he said, by launching the invasion of Manipur. That cost the enemy 22,000 dead. This week the British were well over the border into Burma, the disease-ridden Japs in headlong flight...