Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...training centers of the Commission dot the seaboard on both coasts. At St. Petersburg, Fla., Hoffman Island, N.Y., Port Hueneme, Calif., are schools for apprentices, aged between 18 and 23, where would-be mariners do a seven-month hitch learning the rudiments of their trade. Students are paid $21 a month. Experienced able-bodied seamen and oilers get paid $72.50 to $82.50 a month while brushing up on their knowledge. In charge of all training is the U.S. Coast Guard...
Mexico's Heel. To arid, lizard-like Baja (Lower) California, via Nogales, Ariz. and San Diego, Calif., went Mexican troops, moving across U.S. soil with Washington's permission. Avila Camacho, in a smart military-political stroke, named his predecessor Lázaro Cárdenas chief of Mexico's land, air and naval forces on the west coast, concentrated most of his country's tidy little Navy in the Pacific. From his Senate he sought authority to open ports and bases to ships and planes of the U.S. and any American nation at war with...
Equipment. About 15,000 molds are scattered throughout the U.S., most of them in good condition. Manufactured by such concerns as James C. Heintz & Co., of Cleveland, and Super Mold Corp., of Lodi, Calif., they need aluminum and iron for matrixes which form the treads in the molds. Production this year zoomed 60 to 100%, seems doomed to level off sharply unless priorities are granted...
Because Intercontinental has most of the know-how, owns all of the known guayule seed (from a 15-year-old experimental station in Salinas, Calif.), Agriculture will work side by side with the company on the new project. Plantings should begin about March, probably in California, New Mexico, other western States. Since an acre of guayule yields about 2,000 lb.of rubber, the new 45,000-acre scheme can produce a total of 40,000 long tons of rubber. Biggest hitch: guayule takes four years to reach maximum yield and each new crop means complete replanting...