Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Santa Barbara, Calif...
...running short, a narrower plate produced in strip mills was substituted. Subcontracting was tackled hard by men like bull-shouldered, 300-lb. Charles E. Moore. A year ago, seizing on the bankrupt Joshua Hendy Iron Works, a dilapidated foundry in the middle of a pear orchard near Sunnyvale, Calif., Moore cleared off 34 acres of trees, put up 300,000 square feet of buildings, began to turn out mighty, two-story high, 271,000-lb., triple-expansion engines for the Liberty ships. Enough Hendy engines will have been produced by the end of 1942 to drive 1,000,000 tons...
...charting its all-out program sooner, for not utilizing all available shipways. Companies were accused of grabbing orders just to keep a comfortable backlog. Labor was lambasted for demanding double time for holiday work, for refusing to work ten-hour shifts. (Last week 1,000 workers at Richmond [Calif.] shipyards perversely staged a one-day walkout because they wanted ten-hour shifts instead of eight-hour...
Died. Charles A. Taylor, 78, blood-&-thunder dramatist of the '90s; in Glendale, Calif. Five of his melos were running at once on Broadway in 1892. Some of his plays: From Rags to Riches, Yosemite, The King of the Opium Ring, The Queen of White Slaves. Star of Rags was wide-eyed Laurette Taylor, then his wife...
...home-grown citizens of Jackson, Calif. this week got shocking news: the fabulous Argonaut gold mine will close down within a month; its 225 miners must look for other jobs. Reason: guns, tanks & ships are not made from gold; WPB has turned down all appeals for needed supplies and equipment...