San Francisco Cable Railway, Washington & Mason Streets, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

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Production. B-25 bombers. Center section assembly line of a Western aircraft plant producing B-25 bombers. General Doolittle, who flew in a B-25 in the raid on Tokyo, has called the ship the best military plane in existence. With plenty of speed, a 1700- mile cruising range and a ceiling of 25,000 feet, it has performed brilliantly as a medium bomber and as an escort plane. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Priorities unemployment. New skills, new opportunities. The U.S. employment office advised John Jones to enroll in a defense training course in his own community. There were vocational courses in local schools to choose from or opportunites for training right on the job through the Office of Production Management's (OPM) training within industry program. Training within industry has been installed in nearly 2000 defense plants employing over 2,000,000 workers

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also CAL, 38-SANFRA-137-A- San Francisco Railway: Cable Car Powerhouse & Barn

Significance: The last operating cable railroad in the world. Representative of an important type of urban transportation system intermediary between horse drawn vehicles and electric streetcars.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3

Survey number: HAER CA-12

Building/structure dates: 1906 Demolished

Building/structure dates: 1906-1908 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1911-1912 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1877-1892 Initial Construction

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1969 - 1980

Historic American Engineering Record, creator

Hallidie, Andrew S

Harvey, Charles T

Beauregard, George F

Gardiner, E S

Eppelsheimer, William

San Fransicso Municipal Railway

Clay Street Hill Railroad

Sutter Street Railroad

Traction Railroad Company

United Railroads of San Francisco

California Street Cable Railroad Company

Stanford, Leland

Root, Henry

Borel, Antoine

Stetson, James B

Market Street Railway

Omnibus Railroad & Cable Company

Sutro, Gustav

Ferries & Cliff House Railway

Adams, W J

Martin, William H

Ballard, John

Magee, Thomas

Lynch, Henry H

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San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, sponsor

Griffin, Douglas L, project manager

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