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...prefabs built-four times as many as in the whole decade of the '30s. This year 20% of all new houses may be prefabs-against less than 1% in the 1930-40 period, 3½% last year. Close to 100 factories, from Revere, Mass, to Fresno, Calif.", are now busy turning out floor, wall and roof panels on their assembly lines. At Norfolk, Va. a single plant will turn out 5,000 houses at an expected rate...
Died. Colonel Earl James Atkisson, 55, onetime head of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Department; in Fresno, Calif. During World War I he commanded the only U.S. poison gas regiment...
Aram (rhymes with a bomb) Garoghlanian (pronounced "Gar, pause, oghlan, slight pause, ian") is the narrator, for William Saroyan, of 14 semi-autobiographical semi-stories of an Armenian childhood in Fresno, Calif. They are, in their modest way, the best writing William Saroyan has done. But like all Saroyan's work, they are likable or loathsome, depending on the reader's taste...
Businessmen were alarmed by labor's successful strike at Vultee Aircraft Corp., where workers had won a higher wage; by State Supreme Court decisions upholding the legality of a closed-shop contract. From their annual convention at Fresno, bigwigs of the Associated Farmers of California, Inc. scurried to Los Angeles to huddle with members of the State Chamber of Commerce, the San Francisco Employers' Association, the Merchants' & Manufacturers' Association. There they discussed ways & means of nullifying the Supreme Court decisions...
Soon every mechanically-minded Californian had heard of the terrific speed of the Doolings' doodlebugs. A Fresno real-estate man, Richard Hulse, was so fasciriated that he organized a miniature-auto racing club in his home town, got Manhattan Publisher Charles Penn to give the little buzz-buggies a plug in his national magazine, Model Craftsman. Within 60 days, 40 clubs sprang...