Article: Businesses find the answer at the Central Library's Business Economics Department.

One man wanted a list of Iranian vegetable oil merchants who traded during the 1960s. Another person asked where she could buy a used cargo ship.

For Dan Strehl, Senior Librarian of the Business * Economics Department at the Central Library in Downtown Los Angeles, these were only two of the hundreds of questions he and the department's staff were asked during a routine day at the recently re-opened Los Angeles Public Library, located at Fifth and Flower streets. "The person involved in trade asked for a list of Iranian vegetable oil merchants from the 1960s because he couldn't imagine anything more recent existing," stated Strehl. "He was pretty surprised when I ...

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