California Isle Shipping Center transforms island into naval shipyard hub
Terminal Island in San Pedro shifts from fishing base to a defense asset as private firms and government agencies launch nearly 2 billion dollars in shipbuilding contracts. By spring 1842 contracts will double with yards expanding, 3,000 workers on site, and a new Bethlehem Steel division to build destroyers for the Navy costing 8.1 million each, with 2.5 million allocated for initial work. A second naval base, an 18 million graving dock, is slated for completion by year end 1942, while the Army eyes a transport terminal and dock takeovers on the island.
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San Pedro
Calif
Terminal Island
Los Angeles
Navy
Meri Marine
Devel i
Rnia Shipbuilding Corporation
U.S. Maritime Commission
Narbor
Army
Geles Harbor
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Shipbuilding
Teral Island
Bethlehem Wards
Food Shortage Hits Spanish Bullfighting Season
MADRID reports a food shortage weakens bulls and horses for bullfights. Regulators relax strict weight and ferocity rules as fodder grows scarce, allowing fewer calories to be used. The 1941 season begins across Spain with weaker bulls and toreros proceeding amid tightened conditions.
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Madrid
Spain
Singing Messenger Boy Halts San Francisco Trial
A messenger boy interrupted a murder trial in San Francisco by singing Happy Birthday to court clerk Maurice Cronin. He thrust his head through the courtroom just as Cronin asked jurors if they would still be willing to inflict the death penalty. Judge Steiger was away. the boy finished his birthday greeting before being stopped.
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San Francisco
Maurice Cronin
Superior Court
Cronin
Steiger
Postwar Britons Seen As Shorter and Weaker
London. W H Mottram warned in the Lancet that a postwar generation of shorter and weaker Britons could result unless British children received more protein. The Physiologist called for increased meat milk bacon butter and eggs in children's diets even if adults must sacrifice ration shares.
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London
W.H. Mottram
Lancet
Lights of New York and Town Council Minutes Fragment
A sprawling fragment chronicles urban scenes in New York with vignettes of daily life and a long inclusion of minutes from the Renwick Iowa Town Council. The excerpt weaves in social observations and a detailed 1941 meeting record on waterworks bonds and municipal action.
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Renwick
Iowa
Tore
Hurabelch
Towa
Anderton
Babbring
Geo. Latch
W. James Ke’ Phipps
Humboldt
Wi Seid
D. Elmer
Sanford Anderson
James Kelling
W. H. Phipps
Mr Babler
W. 3
Phipps
James H. Kelling
Geo. Larch
James: Kelling
Genera Pitter Company
Ames
Town
Sys
General Filter Company
Humboldt County
Inne
Reniick
Seaford Andersen
George Latch
Arye
Senford Anderson
James Kessling
W. E. Phipps
Connett
Town Hall
Renn
Renwick Times
Fritz Britt
Marer
Fritz
Lune
Humbaldt Count
Seid Town
Meyer
M. Babier
James E. Belling
Wo Paings
Nonz
Gomes
Isi Town
Comnodl
Relling
M. Babler
Renci Bumvold
Iowers
Manipal Corporation
Dig
General Fil Company
Ren- Wick Times
Brothers in Law Die Within the Same Hour in Galva
In Galva Illinois brothers in law John Shipley aged 76 and Charles Carroll aged 88 died within 15 minutes of each other at Mary's Nursing Home Duncan Illinois. Both entered the home the same day. Shipley cared for Carroll who was blind and crippled until he became Jill himself.
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Galva
John Shipley
Charles Carroll
Duncan
III
Mary's
Shipley
Carroll
Jill
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Hubert M. Long
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