Mark E. Kann Middle Class Radicalism in Santa Monica, Temple University Press: Philadelphia, 1986. 322 pp., 1940s. 1930s
" . . . As World War II approached, the relatively small Douglas Aircraft plant on the city's eastern extremity expanded to meet wartime demand, employing nearly 40,000 workers at the height of production . . . " p. 38
" . . . Between 1940 and 1944 . . . Santa Monica . . . experienced a 40 percent population growth during the decade."