Word: charlestowners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the Ohio River from Louisville, Charlestown, Ind. (pre-defense pop., 850) was bewildered and irritated last week. Du Pont engineers were building for the U. S. Government a vast, sprawling $50,000,000 smokeless-powder plant of 100 buildings (some reportedly underground for air-raid protection) on 6,000 acres of woodland. At first Charlestowners had been as elated as small boys by this windfall. But by last week their town had grown to 5.000. Where there had been three people to a house, there now were twelve. Rents doubled, trailer camps toad-stooled, a carpenter lives...
...public square. A 300% increase in mail had the post office stumped. Five crews of linemen scrambled and shinnied to make telephone connections. Rushing to finish a much-needed sewage system, WPAsters built street-corner privies which indignant citizens threatened to burn. Sidewalk hawkers with pushcarts turned Charlestown into a Lower East Side. Jam-packed was the town's lone grog shop.-Every night was Saturday night and Saturday night was chaos...
...inconveniences was the problem of permanent housing. The present weekly payroll is $4000,000, but Du Pont, in charge of the Government's operations, expects to expand the construction crew to over 10,000 within a month, and eventually maintain an operating personnel of a few thousand less. Charlestown realtors looked hungrily for a housing boom. But fortnight ago Indiana Defense Coordinator Henry B. Steeg announced that the Government's powder plant will not be converted to peacetime industry once the defense effort is over; it will be closed. So Government agencies shied from financing a housing project...
John Harvard passed his 333rd birthday quietly in his Charlestown gave yesterday. The anniversary was practically unnoticed in the busy university which bears his name...
...intrigue, massacres, exile, and there is the usual restrained Roberts love story. There are also great scenes: the headlong flight by sea of thousands of tory refugees and British troops from Boston; the heroic stupidity of the repeated British frontal attacks at Bunker Hill, seen through tory eyes from Charlestown windows and roof tops...