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...will have its headquarters in Brooks House, where it will receive all requests. It will then shuffle these to the appropriate organization. P.B.H. itself will provide entertainers and lecturers for Army and Navy groups, and will send social service volunteers to the areas near the Charlestown Navy Yard and the Water town Arsenal which are now overcrowded with defense workers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P.B.H. Committee to Coordinate Student Defense Service Work | 10/2/1941 | See Source »

Electrocution. One recent midnight, Dr. Brickley carted away the still warm body of an electrocuted convict from Boston's sooty Charlestown Prison. In Massachusetts General Hospital, half an hour after death was pronounced, the doctor tried to find some vestiges of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What Is Death? | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

Another new plant at Charlestown, Ind. (capacity 600,000 Ib. daily) is well ahead of schedule, will go into production, operated by Du Pont, in April. And the third, at Childersburg, Ala., will be ready to turn out smokeless powder at the rate of 300,000 Ib. by midsummer. No matter what unforeseen delays might do later, one critical bottleneck was cracked, would soon break. By autumn, the Army and Navy would have a wartime powder supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Powder to Burn | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...class was employed there as an usher for six months during his final term at Harvard. And a few years ago the Old Howard even appeared in a Geography 1 midyear exam question--the correct answer being to note the theatre's ideal location midway between Harvard Square and Charlestown Navy Yard. But that strategic site has not always been the convening place of sailors on leave and students on sprees...

Author: By E. G., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...they work. He may have been thinking of Bath (Me.) Iron Wofks (destroyers), to which workers are commuting over a 30-60-mile radius. In tiny Sidney (N. Y.), mushrooming with a Bendix aircraft-parts plant, vacant homes have been sought 25 miles away in Norwich, N. Y.* At Charlestown (Ind.), the Government has given up the job of housing 5,000 powder-plant workers, hires commuters from Louisville 15 miles away (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUILDING: Let Them Eat Summer Resorts | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

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