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...church has $3,400,000 in assets - two laundries, six hotels, business build ings, five restaurants, two canneries, two lumber mills, Santa Monica's lush Sorrento Beach Club, 1,000 head of cattle, a cheese factory and 10,000 acres of land...
...order the demolition of a few houses to get nails and lumber used-on new construction. Plenty of lumber was also needed for coffins." Jap Interruption. Eventually Ruiz had Pathfinder running smoothly, and was producing five to seven tons of rubber a month. But not before more trouble...
Controls on the last will be lifted this week. Nor did it mean that some of the most pinching shortages (e.g., textiles, leather and lumber) will end. Army requirements for the Japanese war may well keep such items short for months...
...brand-new general threw himself into the task of fortifying this land. Everywhere military installations were under construction. The general moved around, cutting red tape and finding short cuts. When cement did not arrive on time, he used stone. When milled lumber failed to show up, he cut down trees. When planes did not arrive on time to man his new airfields, he sent a terse telegram to Washington: FIELD READY FOR FIRST PLANE-FRIENDLY OR ENEMY...
...short, WPB will take its hands off a big chunk of U.S. industry, free enough materials so that it can make what it wants. Only on scarce materials, such as rubber, tin, textiles and lumber, will WPB keep a tight hold...