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...California's Department of Labor estimated that 20,000 shipyard and plane-factory employes had already left their jobs. Many were Okies and Arkies, heading back home with cash money in their jeans...
...trip was unaware of its own achievements. In Port land, Me., the business district looked as if a tornado had struck it. "Everywhere litter and trash, small gimcrack stores, small unswept lunchrooms. . . . There were signs and cigaret ads instead of goods in the shop windows. The shipyard workers lived in half-slums, in trailer camps, in rows of prefabricated dwellings. When the shifts changed, the dense black crowd poured out through the gates, their faces gray and yellowish, their visored caps pulled over their foreheads, their thick clothes bunched at the waist under coveralls. Their bodies, baggy with sweaters...
...Portland shipyard "the air smelt of cold seawater, freshly sawed oak, steamed planking. The art of wooden shipbuilding had been forgotten at the start of the war. There was no one to teach the farmers, fishermen, service-station attendants, schoolteachers, office workers, how to shape oak for minelayers...
...auction, in December 1922, of 1,574 Jersey shipyard homes owned by the U.S. Shipping Board-a record 12-hour session when Day stopped the clock for two hours to avoid selling on a Sunday...
...second contingent followed. By last week some 22 couples-including a former railroader, schoolteacher, farmer, shipyard worker, salesman, policeman-and 35 children had arrived from the States and were being distributed around the frozen northland to man the stations and keep the planes flying...