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JAMES J. BAHR Wilmington...
MARGARET W. NASH Wilmington...
...Wilmington Hall, which the Los Angeles Housing Authority proudly calls the world's largest hotel for men, threw open its doors Sunday to admit the first of the 3,000 shipyard workers it was built to house-75% single men, 25% married men who live there on weekdays because home is too far away, or will be after Dec. 1 gas rationing. Its 69 frame buildings, community center, cafeteria (seating 900), gymnasium-auditorium (capacity 1,350) are spread over eleven city blocks all within rifle shot of three big shipyards-California, Bethlehem and Consolidated-so that its tenants...
...three degrees better than the Ritz," said A.F. of L.'s San Pedro-Wilmington Labor Review. More important, it is a shining example of wartime housing construction. Plumbing fixtures are rough cast iron with plastic handles. Some toilet fixtures have glass pipes. There are no bathtubs or private bathrooms, just showers in central bathrooms. Only lighting facilities are wall plugs for wood-stemmed, paper-shaded floor lamps (one for every man). Bedsprings have wooden bases. Interior walls are mainly plywood...
...ferry service pilots as Civil Service employes (at $3,000 a year). As boss of the new squadron the Air Forces picked photogenic, 28-year-old Mrs. Nancy Harkness Love, flying wife of a lieutenant colonel in the Air Transport Command, set her up in business at headquarters at Wilmington...