Word: vallejo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...road from San Francisco to Sacramento, Deputy Petroleum Administrator Ralph K. Davies ran out of gas in Vallejo. Though well-heeled with coupons, he could not find a dealer with gas. > In Portland, 12% of the gas stations closed. Busses were jammed with ex-autoists. Four hundred passengers tried to get aboard one night bus for Seattle...
...then the stud welded to that. Ted Nelson wearied of doing this, finally worked out a crude welding gun to make the job easier. But when he got "no thanks nor extra dough" he quit, and set to work perfecting his gun in a shop behind his home at Vallejo. His simple solution: encase the flux in a small cap and fasten it to the end of the stud. When the stud was loaded into his 7-lb. gun and the trigger pulled, a spring snapped the stud against the steel plate, electrically welding it in a trice...
...Vallejo, near San Francisco, the meat supply was a paltry 10% of normal; in Richmond, Calif, (shipyards) the population is up 40%, the meat supply down 70%. One butcher's solution: "I gotta make a living and I gotta keep my customers satisfied. Every morning I make the rounds of four black-market outfits. In one I say to the guy 'I'll bet you $25 you can't get me a side of beef.' I lay the cash on the table and I always lose the bet. What the hell would...
...years of tub-thumping in favor of prefabricated housing they don't like the appearance of Carquinez Heights! Believe me, if one of the most sensitive artists in America today, I speak of "Bill" Wurster, cannot satisfy the champions of demountables with a bang-up job like the Vallejo project there must be something basically wrong with the theory. I studied the detail drawings and photos of this job very carefully and am at a loss to know how it could be done any better...
...units they have ordered since Jan. 20. Instead they are playing up the word "demountable," explaining that after the war boom these houses can be taken down and moved away. If all of them continue to be such eyesores as the hivelike 977-unit colony completed last fall at Vallejo, Calif, (see cut], they never will be missed...