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1940s
A Few Forgotten Wartime Stories
Greensboro Daily News, October 25, 1942
National Labor Tribune, February 6, 1943
Brookley Field After the War
Huntsville Times, October 23, 1945
Mobile Bears
& Southern League Baseball
Mobile Journal, July 14, 1944
Knoxville Journal, July 15, 1944
With the end of World War II came a retreat to home and community and with it, a focus on sports. Mobile's post-war prosperity played a large part in making largescale public projects possible.
Mobile Grid Stadium
Feb. 26 – The Civilian Production Administration announced Wednesday approval of construction of the Ernest F. Ladd Memorial Football Stadium at Mobile, Ala., at an estimated cost of $600,000.
The approval specified the use of concrete and steel only, and was granted on the basis of “using materials which have no impact on the veterans’ housing program.”
Plans for the Ladd Stadium call for 30,000 seats.
Dallas Morning News, February 27, 1947
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