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Download or read book Sausalito written by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sausalito got its Spanish name, meaning little willow grove, from British seaman William Richardson. He hoped that this deep-water anchorage, so close to the Golden Gate, would become the entrance to a busy city. But the tall ships mostly rushed past his WhalerA[a¬a[s Cove to anchor in San Francisco. Later SausalitoA[a¬a[s gentle hills and sun-washed harbor became a favorite playground and retreat for wealthy San Franciscans, and large hotels like the El Monte prospered. Before construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, Sausalito was a transportation nexus for trains and ferries, and in a sudden mobilization during World War II, 22,000 people a day worked three shifts building liberty ships at Marinship. Sausalito was homeport for many seafaring adventurers, daring rumrunners during Prohibition, and later for beatniks, poets, hippies, and artists drawn to SausalitoA[a¬a[s spectacular vistas and relatively rural atmosphere. Making their abodes on riotously rickety houseboats or in cabins perched on steep slopes, they left an artistic legacy to the community.
Book Synopsis Working People of California by : Daniel Cornford
Download or read book Working People of California written by Daniel Cornford and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the California Indians who labored in the Spanish missions to the immigrant workers on Silicon Valley's high-tech assembly lines, California's work force has had a complex and turbulent past, marked by some of the sharpest and most significant battles fought by America's working people. This anthology presents the work of scholars who are forging a new brand of social history—one that reflects the diversity of California's labor force by paying close attention to the multicultural and gendered aspects of the past. Readers will discover a refreshing chronological breadth to this volume, as well as a balanced examination of both rural and urban communities. Daniel Cornford's excellent general introduction provides essential historical background while his brief introductions to each chapter situate the essays in their larger contexts. A list of further readings appears at the end of each chapter. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.
Download or read book Marinship written by Eric J. Torney and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marinship was a World War II shipyard built by the W.A. Bechtel Company to fulfill an urgent need for cargo ships to support soldiers all over the world. Sausalito was selected as the site for its unused railroad capacity and access to a deepwater channel and the Golden Gate Bridge. In March 1942, the shipyard was built on the site of the railroad maintenance yard and adjacent vacant mudflats, with the first ship being launched in September. At the time of its peak operation, there were as many as 20,000 workers. Workers were recruited from local resources at first but eventually a more widespread recruitment brought people from the Midwest and the South. These new workers, including minorities and women, enabled Marinship to become a leader in the integrated workforce phenomenon. As the war in Europe was won, fewer ships were needed. The Marinship labor force was reduced by about half until the victory in Japan, when ships were no longer needed. Marinship was soon taken over by the US Army Corps of Engineers, which disposed of what it did not need for its operations and currently maintains several buildings to facilitate its regional operations.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :950 pages Book Rating :4.M/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Production in Shipbuilding Plants by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Download or read book Production in Shipbuilding Plants written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Production in Shipbuilding Plants Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1262 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (31 download)
Book Synopsis Production in Shipbuilding Plants by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Production in Shipbuilding Plants
Download or read book Production in Shipbuilding Plants written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Production in Shipbuilding Plants and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Log written by and published by . This book was released on 1942-07 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Small United States and United Nations Warships in the Korean War by : Paul M. Edwards
Download or read book Small United States and United Nations Warships in the Korean War written by Paul M. Edwards and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From rubber landing boats to picket boats to minesweepers, smaller support vessels did much of the work of the Korean War, and endured many of the dangers and hardships. Rarely mentioned in histories of the war, they served functions essential to keeping the United States Navy and the United Nations partners in active duty. This volume delivers an overview of the various kinds of vessels involved, the difficulties of mobilizing the aging American fleet at a time when a significant downsizing had been expected, and the design and specification considerations of the support vessels needed for the new war effort. It lists the individual support vessels and details the degree of their involvement, often providing photographs as well as comments from men who served aboard the ships.
Book Synopsis Report by : United States. Congress. Senate
Download or read book Report written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States by : United States. Court of Claims
Download or read book Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States written by United States. Court of Claims and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States at the ... with the Rules of Practice and the Acts of Congress Relating to the Court by : United States. Court of Claims
Download or read book Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States at the ... with the Rules of Practice and the Acts of Congress Relating to the Court written by United States. Court of Claims and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis California. Court of Appeal (1st Appellate District). Records and Briefs by : California (State).
Download or read book California. Court of Appeal (1st Appellate District). Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consolidated Case(s): A021202_x005F_x005F_x000D_ A022544_x005F_x005F_x000D_ A021137_x005F_x005F_x000D_ A021199
Book Synopsis Seeking El Dorado by : Lawrence B. de Graaf
Download or read book Seeking El Dorado written by Lawrence B. de Graaf and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 18th century, African Americans, like many others, have migrated to California to seek fortunes or, often, the more modest goals of being able to find work, own a home, and raise a family relatively free of discrimination. Not only their search but also its outcome is covered in Seeking El Dorado. Whether they settled in major cities or smaller towns, African Americans created institutions and organizations—churches, social clubs, literary societies, fraternal orders, civil rights organizations—that embodied the legacy of their past and the values they shared. Blacks came in search of the same jobs as other Americans, but the search often proved frustrating. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, African American leadership in the state consistently focused on achieving racial justice. The essays in this book speak of triumph and hardship, success, discrimination, and disappointment. Seeking El Dorado is a major contribution to black history and the history of the American West and will be of interest to both scholars and general readers.
Book Synopsis The San Francisco Nexus in World War II by : Philip E. Meza
Download or read book The San Francisco Nexus in World War II written by Philip E. Meza and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The San Francisco Nexus in World War II: Freedoms Found, Liberties Lost, and the Atomic Bomb, Meza tells the story of important events in the San Francisco Bay Area that have consequences still felt to date. He traces the invention of the atomic bomb, from a speculative design for a nuclear weapon sketched on a chalkboard at Berkeley by theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer and helped made real by “Big Science” that was pioneered by his friend and colleague, experimental physicist Ernest Lawrence. During this time, Black Americans migrated to San Francisco to escape the Jim Crow South, finding new freedoms, good jobs, and a leader in a singer-turned-welder named Joseph James. Meza shows how James fought for and won an end to segregation in his union, taking a large step toward the civil rights movement. At the same time, Japanese Americans were forced from their homes by a tragically misguided presidential executive order, upheld by the US Supreme Court, illustrating the fragility of liberty in America. These events continue to shape the world today.
Book Synopsis Subversion and Surrealism in the Art of Honoré Sharrer by : M. Melissa Wolfe
Download or read book Subversion and Surrealism in the Art of Honoré Sharrer written by M. Melissa Wolfe and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers the first critical reassessment of an artist whose mature oeuvre constitutes a rich and often disquieting critique that is equal parts wit, seduction, and bite. Honorae Sharrer (1920-2009) was a major figure in the years surrounding World War II, though her commitment to leftist ideals and an alternate trajectory of surrealism put her at increasing odds with the political and artistic climate of the time"--
Book Synopsis Hearings by : United States. Congress. House
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 2594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court by :
Download or read book Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Range of Rats at Sea by : Dan Kovalchik
Download or read book Range of Rats at Sea written by Dan Kovalchik and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-01-21 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Range. Think of it as a shooting gallery that circles the globe. A vital link was forged in 1966, when NASA converted a World War II tanker into the USNS Vanguard, one of the most sophisticated communication centers ever to sail the high seas. Range Rats At Sea is an account of one crewmember's attempt to squeeze a lifetime of adventure into two short years. Success, however, hinged upon his ability to win the heart of a shipmate.
