Is Anyone Home At The LA Times? Nikki Publishes PRESS RELEASE from AFTRA Announcing Contract Settlement at 7:46 PM - AND...

.... the Los Angles Times doesn't have a word about the settlement for non-prime time shows (as opposed to prime time shows which still need to be negotiated)... FOUR HOURS later!

But the website does have a 1933 earthquake story that says Southern California was just starting to grow in.... 1933; and, of course, that is almost exactly when the amazing growth of the first third of the century was just beginning to slow down.