In the first half of the 20th century; Fontana Farms Company operated a hog ranch on the site where Kaiser Company Incorporated later erected one of the nations largest steel mills. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941; the United States was forced into an unprecedented escalation in the production of ships; planes; and armaments. Soon the sensational announcement came to San Bernardino County that Fontana; a railroad convergence located a safe distance from possible coastal bombardment; would become home to thousands of sweathogs in the war effort. A "gold rush" of sorts ensued; and all property south of Valencia Street to the railroad was sold in a week. This book pays tribute to the fact that; for two generations; Kaiser Steel Corporation at Fontana was among Californias and the nations industrial giants.
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