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Chapter 16: Life in Berkeley and in Salt Lake,
and Berkeley again
The U.S. Employment Service suggested that I go to work on
a project at Richmond Shipyard #3, where big transport and hospital
ships were being built. At Yard 3, I reported to Bert Hanman, who was
supervising an experimental plan he had devised to analyze the physical
demands of shipyard jobs. The objective was to be able to match per-
sons having physical disabilities with jobs they were physically capable
of performing.
Bert Hanmans group was very congenial. All the job analysts
were college graduates; two of them were very bright women. Working
in the shipyard was very interesting I had always been interested in in-
dustrial processes. Yard 3 had huge dry docks where the ships were built
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or a train ride to join me in Berkeley. Finally, after waiting a couple of
weeks, Jean was able to get a plane ride on a United Airlines DC-3 in
October 1943. Despite gas rationing my dear sister June drove me to the
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The Army and Navy bases and war production work had sky-
rocketed Bay Area population. Available housing was terribly limited.
Laurine and Grant invited us to live with them until we could secure an
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his wife and his baby. They promptly did. It was a wartime minimally
remodeled apartment in a big, old home on Blake Street in Berkeley. For
example, the toilet was operated by a chain from the ceiling. Our com-
bination living room and bedroom was small and the adjoining kitchen
had an alcove where we put baby Janets bed. There was no refrigerator
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