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...They knew how hard it was to get steel and construction workers. But the town caught Reese's enthusiasm, sent a delegation to the National Steel Corp.'s Ernest T. Weir. Weir promised to send steel. From his Great Lakes Steel Corp. in Detroit, Weir also sent Quonset-type buildings. The Pennsylvania Railroad helped out by giving priorities to Reese's materials and stopping through trains at Scio just to unload them. When he ran short of cash, five New York chain stores, which had sold millions of pieces of Reese-made china, lent...
There were few construction workers in Scio, so Reese's pottery workers learned how to build. Men & women worked at a flat $1 an hour, many for 48 hours a week. The women's clubs served meals on the job. The Quonset buildings went up four times as fast as they had even in disaster-stricken Texas City...
Both festivities are parts of the work the quonset-housed nursery on Kirkland Place is doing to promote religious tolerance among the 90 pre-kindergarten children who come daily to play there. Directed by white-haired Miss Winnifred Lydon, the year-old school offers the youngsters of both veteran and non veteran students four daily hours of play for only $5 a month...
...second expansion of the Trappists this year. Last July 33 Trappist monks, brothers and novices established the Monastery of the Holy Trinity on a 1,640-acre ranch at the head of the Ogden valley near Ogden, Utah. Outside work is finished on a temporary monastery of Quonset-type buildings. Soon the monks expect to begin work on an irrigation system, and on gardens and orchards...
...home for Pop is school to over 100 youngsters under five years who comprise the two sessions of the University nursery at the corner of Kirkland St. and Kirkland Rd. This week Director Miss Winfred Lydon of Belmont marks her first year of operations in the pair of linked quonset huts which from an appropriate "H" under the University aegis...