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...Inglewood, Calif...
Listen to William M. Short, president of Seattle's Inglewood Country Club: "We saw it coming months ago. Over in Kirkland (site of the Lake Washington Shipyards, five miles from Inglewood) war workers are sleeping in chicken sheds, in parked cars. We had square yards of space going unused 20 hours...
With the only refrigerated wind tunnel and the biggest low-pressure chamber in the U.S. aviation industry, Airesearch Co. of Inglewood, Calif. is developing equipment to send planes toward the stratosphere, whither the air battles of World War II are rapidly climbing. The refrigerated wind tunnel, an enormous doughnut 25 feet across, made of tubing three feet in diameter, contains a 300-m.p.h. wind that blows at temperatures down to -90° Fahrenheit...
...Inglewood, Calif., the North American Aviation, Inc. plant was humming. Troops sent in to break a Communist-inspired strike and keep production going had been withdrawn, were camped 1,000 yards away. It had never been necessary to "seize" the plant. Army officers had simply acted as "management agents" for the U.S. Government. Negotiations for increased wages had been resumed under the temporizing auspices of the National Defense Mediation Board, which this week gave the company an additional 24 hours in which to reply to a board proposal for settlement of the dispute...
...wildcat" Communist-run strike at the North American Aviation plant in Inglewood, Calif, was scarcely broken when a C.I.O. union (of die casters) walked out of the Cleveland plant of Aluminum Co. of America. The move, following the pattern at Inglewood, was in defiance of a Mediation Board request to withhold strike action until the Board could intervene. Before the Board could even take its coat off, scarcely three hours after it had started to study the dispute, the Cleveland plant was strike-shut. And even after strike leaders reached an agreement with the Board next day (raising wages...