Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gabriel, Calif...
...clang and throb of the nation's production. Now the fast rising tide of postwar strikes lapped up into the fire rooms of whole industries, sent 1,500,000 U.S. workmen into the midwinter streets, created ghost forests of smokeless stacks from Buffalo, N.Y. to Los Angeles, Calif...
...refusing to compromise for the President's proposal and thus avert a strike? One industrialist thought so. Big, bustling Henry Kaiser rushed to the White House with Phil Murray, emerged to announce that he had signed with the Steelworkers at 18½? for his plant at Fontana, Calif, (which employs only 3,000 men and enjoys a favorable price differential of $12 a ton). Cried Big Henry...
...hillside house overlooking the Pacific near Santa Barbara, Calif., Lotte Lehmann lives with a friend, Frances Holden (former New York University psychology assistant professor). Says she: "We swim every day in the Pacific, even at Christmas time. We are dreadfully busy. She translates my books. I paint. She makes carpenter work. We look like pigs running around." Lehmann's fourth book, More Than Singing, is in its second printing, and her paintings (landscapes, portraits, opera scenes) were displayed in a one-man show in November 1944. ("A man called up and wanted to buy one of the paintings...
Married. John Wayne (real name.: Marion Michael Morrison), 38, outstanding (6 ft. 2 in.) Hollywood Horse Operative; and Esperanza Baur, 24, to-the-manor-born Mexican cinemactress; both for the second time (she again to a Morrison, he again to a Latin American); in Long Beach, Calif...