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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Stahl has not much basis for getting too optimistic about this year's squad even though he has a host of yeterans returning to the fold. The Sophomore Class, which has an average crop of ball players, unfortunately will not add very much to the general picture. Its only real stars are Warren Berg and Ned Fitzgibbons...
Said the Times: "Money is the root of many of the evils of production. . . . Resentment about low wages ... is fanned by the belief that extra effort by the workers is helping to add to private profits as well as to the strength of our war machine. . . . Concern about the future is being given too prominent a place in the plans and activities of too many industrial concerns. . . . Even ministers shrink from upsetting normal trade practice. . . . Men of vision cannot fail to see that humanity is passing at this moment through the fire of social revolution as well as of universal...
...Clothes don't hamper me at all," says Ann Corio, but they don't add to her charm. Perhaps she had better stick to the Old Howard, where he art may proceed to its own unhampered end and where Harvard men may admire her in the accustomed manner, unabashed by the proprieties of the legitimate stage...
...Department will come and take care of things.) If an incendiary bomb is found burning in a building, throw gasoline on it. (You can't put it out anyway, so you might just as well have a little fun.) . . . Always get excited and holler bloody murder. (It will add to the fun and confusion and scare hell out of the kids.) . . . If you should be the "victim of a direct bomb hit, don't go to pieces. (Lie still and you won't be noticed...
Ships. The Maritime Commission is optimistic. Actual merchant-ship launchings last month hit a 6,000,000-ton-a-year rate, only 2,000,000 tons below the President's 1942 goal. To reach it, shipbuilders will go on a seven-day week, add "a few" shipways to the present 406 (for ships over 300 ft.), draw needed labor from a 200,000-man pool now in training. Mass orders have enabled some yards to rationalize their production methods, approximate an assembly-line technique...