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...month for their work, stepped up their frenzied game to win the new audiences for keeps. The present top performer is a veteran Spaniard, 40-year-old, balding José Garate, who played seven seasons in Shanghai before the war. The box-office star is Enrique ("Superman") Vallejo, a none-too-agile, 191-lb. Cuban who whips the ball with terrific force. Win, lose or draw, he is billed - and viewed by many female fans - as the Errol Flynn of jai alai...
...Vallejo, Calif...
...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...