Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York and they promptly answered: "If the quantity is not large enough we are not interested, as import permit is required now from the Government and there is quite a lot of red tape with so many forms and papers to fill." Another firm of Los Angeles, Calif, wrote recently:. "We cannot ship lavatories nor any other sanitary goods as we are unable to obtain allocation for the material required for brass fittings." I offered to ship brass and copper scrap, but they answered that they could not use it as they would have to go through such red tape...
Divorced. Pulitzer Prizewinning Novelist John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath), 40; by Carol Henning Steinbeck, 38; after an eleven-month separation; in Salinas, Calif. She won a settlement of $220,000 and the Steinbeck home at Pacific Grove, Calif...
Lana Turner won a smashing victory at Minterfield, Calif. The personnel of the Army Air Corps voted her their "Delight in a Blackout" girl...
...prefabs built-four times as many as in the whole decade of the '30s. This year 20% of all new houses may be prefabs-against less than 1% in the 1930-40 period, 3½% last year. Close to 100 factories, from Revere, Mass, to Fresno, Calif.", are now busy turning out floor, wall and roof panels on their assembly lines. At Norfolk, Va. a single plant will turn out 5,000 houses at an expected rate...
...they have ordered since Jan. 20. Instead they are playing up the word "demountable," explaining that after the war boom these houses can be taken down and moved away. If all of them continue to be such eyesores as the hivelike 977-unit colony completed last fall at Vallejo, Calif, (see cut], they never will be missed...