Identifier: architectenginee16847sanf (find matches)
Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
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rkers for the heavy volume ofconstruction expected in 1947 was recently urgedby Douglas Whitlock, chairman of the BuildingProducts Institute. There need be no shortage of workers to buildhomes and other structures if the apprentice train-ing program is expanded and young men are in-terested in the building trades, Whitlock said. Fully one-third more workers will be needed in1947 than were available last year if the $19 to $20billion of anticipated construction is to be accom-plished this year, Whitlock pointed out. Additional workers are needed in every majorbuilding trade, both because relatively few youngmen entered the various trades during the depres-sion and war years and because many of theunion members are reaching retirement age,Whitlock concluded. POPULATION If San Francisco had the same populationdensity as New York County, the city would have3,800,000 inhabitants, G. L. Fox, manager of theSan Francisco Chamber of Commerce industrialdepartment stated recently. JULY, 1 947 13
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AIR VIEW OF JUOSON PACIFIC-MURPHY CORPORATION STEEL PLANT AT EMERYVILLE New Judson Pacific MurphySteel CarpDration Plant Emeryville, California Early this year the Judson Pacific-Murphy an-nounced the consolidation of all offices, facilitiesand plants in one location at Emeryville, Cali-fornia. The move returns to Emeryville the oldest steelfabricating plant in the West, as the origin of thiscompany dates back to the pioneer days of Cali-fornia. Seventy-nine years old in experience, the Jud-son Pacific-Murphy Corporation has written his-tory on the West Coast in the fabrication and erec-tion of structural and reinforcing steel for a largenumber of the wests most outstanding structures,but it is still young in industrial strength and recep- tive to new ideas and, as is evidenced by theirnew plant embodying the most modern equipmentand facilities, the company is ready to accept thechallenge of the progressive West. The formation of the present company was ac-complished through the conso

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