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Found: a dormitory for Kilroy's nine children. James J. Kilroy of Halifax, Mass., who says he first wrote "Kilroy was here" on the Lexington's hull in a shipyard, won a contest for the best explanation of how the Kilroy thing started, received as a reward one streetcar from the Boston Elevated Railway Co. If Kilroy can get it home, that will be the children's wing...
Female relatives of the late Vice Admiral Howard L. Vickery, former vice chairman of the Maritime Commission, had been in special demand as bottle-smashers. Five had received $6,457.65 in shipyard gifts; Daughter Barbara's share included two diamond bracelets. Ernie Pyle's widow, for christening a ship named in her husband's honor, was handed a $25 gimmick...
...plus applications that the Housing Office has already satisfied since last January by locating married students in the Cambridge area include almost 200 housekeeping units brought down from temporary settlements in Maine for shipyard workers and set up on the Jarvis and Divinity tennis court grounds and next to the Business School...
...much more time than it takes to lay a keel, war-born Vanport City became Oregon's second largest city (pop. 39,000). When V-J day came and its Kaiser shipyard workers left, the city-midway between Vancouver, Wash, and Portland, Ore.-began to die. Last week the joint was jumping again...
...been fed and housed by relief money when he could not get any of the limited manual labor he could do. Later he had been able to marry, raise four healthy children. For the last six years, Shpihun had worked steadily, earned $160 a month in a shipyard. His teen-age daughter Mary and son Bill had steady jobs also with the Canadian National Railways. They had plenty to eat and a cozy home, had even saved some money. And Canada had made them feel at home, had even encouraged them to keep alive their Ukrainian customs...