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More than 500,000 overnight guests have used the facilities of the King George Hotel, 334 Mason Street, during the three years it has been operated exclusively for servicemen. ......... The free canteen and the game room have accommodated 1,350,000 men and women of the armed forces in the same period. — Jan. 15 Headline:
'Get Into War Work!'
President Roosevelt dies: The shocking suddenness of the news seemed literally to stun San Francisco. ......... What you heard most often was "It isn't true. It can't be true. It's just another one of those false rumors." — April 13 The hopes and aspirations of mankind focused on San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House yesterday as the United Nations Conference on international organization opened "in solemn and silent meditation." In search of means to end wars, statesmen of forty-six nations gathered in the first plenary session of what President Truman called the most important, the most necessary meeting in all history. — April 26 V-E Day: San Francisco saloons close, stores stay open. As the city reacted with a sigh of relief to the news that the conflict in Europe was over and turned resolutely to the grim task yet unfinished in the Pacific, churches prepared to open their doors today for a daylong observance of prayer. — May 8 An atomic bomb was dropped for the second time on Japan today, devastating the key port and shipbuilding center of Nagasaki, three days after the weapon was first used against Hiroshima. — Aug. 9 No more women will be employed to operate San Francisco's street railways, Utilities Manager E.G. Cahill announced yesterday. ......... The street railways now have 800 women working as operative employees. Easing of the manpower shortage made possible the halt to recruiting of more women. ......... "War veterans are entitled to such jobs as become available," he said. — Sept. 8 Governmental recognition for research on the atomic bomb will be given to the University of California for the first time today during mid-term graduation exercises on the Berkeley campus. Prof. Ernest O. Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, and graduating students will hear formal recognition from the War Department by its representative, Gen. Leslie R. Groves. — Oct. 21< |
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