for our country mobilizing for that war was this conundrum of where all the workers would live, who worked in these newly built and newly retooled production plants? in an already crowded city like detroit, for example, the government of 1941, realized that they re gonna have to quickly add hundreds of thousands of units of housing in order to bring in hundreds and thousands of new workers to staff these defense production facilities that were being retooled from civilian detroit, or in fact newly opened to make more material in that city. and that math is easy to see, right? you need to build a whole bunch of new stuff. you need a whole bunch of new or retooled or expanded facilities to build that stuff. you need a lot of people to work in those facilities, so they need a place to live. the math is simple, right? on paper, that s all very rational. that all just follows. it s very logistical. it makes sense. in practice, though, it was its own kind of war. while detroit resi
uniforms, everything. the government opened defense production facilities all over the country. factories, they either retooled the existing ones, or they built new ones. and in some places, there were particularly large defense production facilities, either a large number for retooled plants, or a bunch of new ones that were built. one of the things that emerged quickly as a bottleneck for our country mobilizing for that war was this conundrum of where all the workers would live, who worked in these newly built and newly retooled production plants? in an already crowded city like detroit, for example, the government of 1941, realized that they re gonna have to quickly add hundreds of thousands of units of housing in order to bring in hundreds and thousands of new workers to staff these defense production facilities that were being retooled from civilian use in detroit, or in fact newly opened to make more material in that city. and that math is easy to see, right? you need t
Scene investigators have been out here all night. It is unclear, though how long these remains have been out here or what kind of remains have been discovered for example a skull or bones we also dont know whether they belong to a male or female and who found these remains and if anyone tipped off authorities to this location today. A lot of neighbors have driven by this area checked out all this activity today and wondered whether these remains could belong to sierra lamar. She is the morgan hill teen who vanished about 4 years ago while walking to a bus stop on her way to school. Her body to this day has never been found, but Police Arrested torres on charges of murder and kidnapping. Her dna was found in his car and his dna was found on her clothing. His trial is scheduled to begin in april. It is too early to say whether these remains belong to sierra lamar we dont know at this point. I am standing about 18 miles away from her sunshine which is the area where she disappear. The San
,,,,,,,, remains found near a bay ar college. Not far from the scene, where sierra lamar disappeared. Remains were discovered breaking news. Human remains found near a Bay Area College not far from the scene from where sierra lamar disappeared. Those remains discovered this a rural area near gaffe lab college in bill roy. Betty yu was the first reporter on the scene tonight. Reporter ken, when i first arrived to the scene i saw search crews wrapping up for tonight and now the Sheriffs Department has this orchard behind me closed off for this investigation which they are not saying a whole lot about. We only know that some point today human remains were found in this area. Tonight we saw crews out here Walking Around a field filled with trees, shrubs and dirt. The Santa Clara County Sheriffs Department says crime scene investigators have been out here all night. It is unclear, though how long these remains have been out here or what kind of remains have been discovered for example a sku
own kind of war. while detroit residents got one of their u.s. senators, a democratic senator named prentice brown, to lead an effort in washington, to declare that new housing built in detroit for defense plant workers would be whites only housing. and, that effort in washington actually seemed like it would work for a while, before it didn t, before they sort of blot it back. ultimately, it was black families in detroit who moved into some of the new housing. white residents put up this billboard across from some of that new housing, as you can see here, it says, we want white tenants in our white community. the american flags they put up there in the corners of the sign, isn t that a nice touch? that was february, 1942 because in february of 1942, february 28th, to be exact, two dozen black families, again, these are families of workers at the new defends plants, two dozen