Word: vallejo
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...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...
...week's end the coast was sure that its fears were not hysterical. FBI agents continued their raids. In one of them, made on "very definite suspicions of espionage," at Vallejo, Calif, near the Navy's big Mare Island yard, they seized Navy signal flags and flares, arrested nine Japs...
...Lippay's Filipino symphonists all had regular contracts. Today, playing in the Manila Symphony is a full-time job, pays from pesos 30 ($15) to pesos 150 ($75) a month (as much as the starting salary of a government employe). Key men like four-feet-six Concertmaster Ernesto Vallejo have studied in Europe or the U.S. But most of the players, including a bassoonist who learned his instrument in a few days before his first concert, are naturally gifted natives who take to Beethoven like an Igorot to confirmation.* Conductor Zipper, also an Austrian, who fled to the Philippines...
...when Joe Shoong was 24, he started the first China Toggery in Vallejo, a little town at the end of San Francisco Bay. After the 1906 earthquake he moved to San Francisco. Ten years later he opened his first branch, in Sacramento. And ten years after that, with ten stores in California, he began to do business in the northwest-Seattle, Portland, Tacoma...