Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Beach, Calif., where he founded his famed pension movement nine years ago, Dr. Francis E. Townsend returned last week to rally his followers-and at the fountainhead to try to refresh his own optimism. For Townsendism, thanks to the thousands of jobs that war has opened to oldsters, had fallen on discouraging times...
...around him, in a California which once had been a fertile breeding ground for panaceas like his, Dr. Townsend could see what was wrong. In Long Beach and San Diego, up to 40% of Townsend Club members had gone back to work: as salesmen, plant guards, time clerks, as wrappers, packers and stackers. In Los Angeles, Western Union had hired oldsters as messengers. (The two oldest, 84 and 82, had found the work too tiring; the present seniors, both 78, are doing fine...
...Sturdy little Owen S. Gibson, 69, onetime Chautauqua performer, onetime plumber and builder, used to think that Townsendism was the biggest thing in his life. But now Owen Gibson works at Douglas Aircraft's big Long Beach plant, on a "burr bench," where he files the rough edges off machined airplane parts. Says he: "I haven't been so active in the club since working here. This is all-important-the other isn't so important...
...Liberated North and West Africa are rich in palm oils, some foodstuffs, but short of cloth and other manufactured goods. Here the U.S. may trade resources. Across the Mediterranean, unliberated Italy is hungry, war-weary. Here the promise of food and a peace with security might help open a beach head for Allied occupation. Around the world, as the Axis conquerors are rolled back, the plan is to supply every nation with its needs, toward an economic stability more permanent than the ruins of the peace that followed World...
...generator at Southern California Edison's Long Beach plant was subjected to "a friendly seizure order" by WPB (to avoid legal delays), will be followed by a second unit within the month. Southern California Edison will get in return a new 80,000-kw. turbogenerator now being manufactured-and the U.S.S.R. will get its additional power supply that much earlier...