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...Personnel are living in dugouts made by the contractor's men [the A.F. of L. workmen]. . . . Not comfortable, but adequate against all but direct bomb hits. . . . Sanitation is only fair, but so far have had only a mild flurry of diarrhea. Fresh water is adequate for drinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Flame of Glory | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...display in Los Angeles last week was one of a half dozen air-raid shelters built by a Glendale contractor named Victor J. Nelson. The Nelson shelter was an above-ground type, attracted gapers, no buyers. But Nelson has plans for underground shelters, too, which the Defense Council has tentatively approved. Meanwhile in Hollywood Cinemactress Deanna Durbin is already building a house with a bombproof shelter. Miss Durbin said she didn't order it; the architect just put it in of his own accord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN FRONT: Los Angeles Gets Ready | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

Some firms contracting to repair blitzed houses were found to be charging ten times fair prices. One contractor asked ?50 for labor cost on a repair job for which the material cost only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How to Beat Rationing | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...Contractor Ferguson-Oman Co. "is rebuilding [its] equipment at Government expense," by September had received $59,000 for rental, $53,000 for repairs on equipment valued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUILDING: More Dirt | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...enlarge the runway from 800 to 1,550 meters, A.D.P. is moving by hand labor 120,000 cubic meters of soil, cutting and filling spots often 20 feet off-grade. But Superintendent Fred Wohn had trouble getting enough of the necessary small, hand-pushed dump trucks. A German contractor had some; when Wohn tried to rent them for the A.D.P. project, he flatly refused. Wohn finally got his trucks by sending an intermediary to lease them for an anonymous project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pan Am in Brazil | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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