Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the U. S. boomed toward defense production at wartime levels. But the U. S. already had signs of another housing shortage. Worst shortages were at and near shipyards (Bremerton. Wash.; Norfolk, Va.; Newport, R. I.; Mare Island. Calif., etc.) where workers flocked by thousands. At Bremerton (Puget Sound Navy Yard), State patrolmen, harried by reports of "stolen" and abandoned cars, wearily retorted: "Hell, there's guys living in them-Navy yard workers...
Sued for divorce. Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr., 28, four-times-married sportsman and sugar tycoon; by Emily Hall von Romberg Spreckels, 28, comely onetime baroness; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Charging brutality and shame brought on by his Nazi associations, Spreckels' wife complained that he had once flaunted a swastika in a Manhattan cafe...
Married. Vivien Leigh, 26, cinemactress; and Laurence Olivier, 33, cinemactor; in Santa Barbara, Calif.; four days after British Barrister Herbert Leigh Hoi-man's divorce from Miss Leigh became final, 25 days after British Actress Jill Esmond obtained an absolute decree from Olivier...
Husband In San Jose, Calif., Mrs. James E. Compton, seeking a divorce, testified that her husband's shadowboxing terrified her in the daytime, that his "deep, ringside breathing" kept her awake at night...
Last week Pan Am went ahead with plans for improving its new route. In the Lockheed shops at Burbank, Calif, new land planes were building-four-motored, high-altitude Excaliburs with an average cruising range of 1,500 miles, 247-m.p.h. cruising speed (at 12,000 ft.). On the drawing boards was Pan Am's plane of the future - a 300-m.h.p. transport which could leave Rio early one morning, arrive at Miami the same evening. Pan Am hopes it will make possible a trip from Rio to Manhattan in 24 hours, a journey which by water takes twelve...