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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...