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...Angeles. Aiming point: the Hollywood Race Track. Totally destroyed: much of the business district, several major aircraft factories, Dow Chemical, MGM. El Segundo Oilfield and part of Santa Monica...
...effect on the industry is already beginning to show. Douglas' El Segundo plant, represented by the A.F.L. International Association of Machinists, voted to accept the company's offer of 5? an hour. Contracts at the company's Santa Monica plant and at Lockheed have also expired. The unions there, also I.A.M., have rejected company offers, but so far have voted down a strike and are still going to work under the terms of the old contracts. At week's end, North American planned a meeting with union negotiators, thought the strike would probably be over soon...
With Lockheed closed, the I.A.M. then tried to strike Douglas' plants at Santa Monica and El Segundo, demanding a blanket 9?-an-hour increase. Douglas offered 5?, and 13,000 El Segundo workers walked out. But at the main Santa Monica plant, Douglas' more experienced workers refused to let Local Union President Stan Decker stampede them, met to ballot on a strike. During the day, they had heard the plant loudspeaker repeat a telegram from Defense Secretary Robert...
...wing, all-metal monoplane, and pioneered multicellular metal construction in commercial airplanes. He had long dreamed of an all-wing (i.e., Flying Wing) as the plane of the future, and had flown a prototype. After a spell working for Douglas Aircraft as a vice president bossing the El Segundo plant, Northrop, with the help of two friends, finally launched his own small plant...
...Segundo (Calif.) Swimming Club, whose rough & tumble water-polo team won the right to represent the U.S. by knocking off the New York Athletic Club team...