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Show Airplane Manufacturer Builds Bomb Shelters LONG BEACH, CALIF. Bombproof Bomb-proof shelters for workmen . . . Underground vaults for storing materials . . . And a huge plant with no window! at all and a new device on the doori to prevent light from seeping out . . . That's the new $12,000,000 Douglaj "blackout" plant at Long Beach now under construction under a speedup program to accelerate the southern California production of war planes. The factory, comprising 11 build-ings build-ings on a 200-acre site, will incorporate incor-porate every defense feature. Betides Be-tides the bomb shelters and the vaults and the absence of windows, the plant will be so constructed and painted that it will blend with the landscape so that it will be exceptionally excep-tionally hard to find by an enemy in the air. Even the transformers from which will come the electric power for the new plant are built far underground. Large crews are working day and night, rushing construction of the plant which, as soon as it is finished," will go into production" of bombers and transports for the United States army and navy and the RAF. Th plant may be ready for operation by midsummer. |