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After a year of bench-warming, some of the U.S.'s star architects were finally at work last week on defense housing. In Pittsburgh's suburb of New Kensington, not far from Aluminum Co. of America's sprawling plant, builders got started on a set of emergency houses designed by famed Architect Walter Gropius of Harvard and his co-Bauhäusler Marcel Breuer. They differed as much from the first crop of Government houses for defense workers as a Frank Lloyd Wright design does from a suburban contractor...
Also settled was a strike in the Aluminum Co. of America plant at New Kensington, Pa. When middleaged, belligerent Employe Fred Ross objected to paying up his union dues and the management refused to cooperate by firing him, union men struck. Idle for a week were 7,500 men. Again Murray and Hillman interceded. Ross was transferred to the company's plant at Logan's Ferry. C. I. O. strikers, having lost an estimated $250,000 in wages, returned to their jobs, resumed work on aluminum orders required in defense production...
...were a two-week-old fight in the Northwest, where a dispute between A. F. of L. sawmill workers and mill owners tied up delivery of lumber needed for defense construction, and a walkout last week of C. I. O. workers in Aluminum Co.'s plant in New Kensington...
London was not entirely spared, however. In one raid 3OO-year-old Kensington Palace, where British monarchs from William III down through the German Georges lived, where Queen Victoria and Queen Mary were born, was damaged...
...that, because pets are barred from air-raid shelters, great numbers of Britons are deliberately risking their lives by refusing to leave their pets. Only solution, according to the R. S. P. C. A., was to build air-raid shelters for pets. A 36-dog shelter was begun in Kensington Gardens...