Identifier: americanjournroen09ameruoft (find matches)
Title: The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Radium Society American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: Radiotherapy X-rays
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. C.C. Thomas
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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tablished in 1921.These concerns employ over 125,000 work-men, whose monthly pay-roll runs over$16,000,000. The value of manufacturedproducts from these industries in 1920 wasin excess of S~88,ooo,ooo, as comparedwith $io3,3p-,ooo in 1914, $68,586,000 in1909, and $15,134,000 in 1900. Los Angeles has practically the only365 working-day climate in the UnitedStates; and the saving made possible bythe climate, both to industrial establish-ments and to the workers themselvesthrough the medium of better health,lower fuel, cost of clothing, and enjoymentof real outdoor life, is an advantage whichwill, in time, outweigh the reputation ofthis locality as a national playground. Los Angeles, through her wonderfulaqueduct system which is the longest inthe world, has a supply of pure mountainwater sufficient to take care of over 3,500,-000 people; and can increase the supplythrough additions whenever it becomesnecessary. In the last ten years it has actu-ally been increased from 14,600,000 gallons
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Wilshire Boulevard near the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles. 448 Los Angeles to 30,000,000 gallons in the city alone;and from 91,000 water service in operationin 1910 to over 230,000 in operation at thepresent time. The water flows throughji miles of tunnel, 12 miles of siphon, 100miles of lined and covered conduit; 40miles of open lined canal, 21 miles of openunlined canal and 8^ miles of reservoirs.It is to the abundance and cheapness of herwater supply that Los Angeles owes muchof her prosperity and her ability to grow. Los Angeles is the geographic centerof the Pacific Coast of the United Statesfor trade with the west coast of Mexicoand South America, and for trade with theeastern ports of the United States throughthe Panama Canal. And, what is evenmore important, Los Angeles considersitself the natural port of the Pacific toreceive the bulk of the commerce that inthe near future will be exchanged betweenthe United States and the great countriesof the Orient—China, Japan, Australi

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