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...operate it on a cost-plus basis. It was the second construction contract to be let in 1940's defense emergency for a powder mill to be operated by private industry, owned by the Government. Du Pont had signed one like it last month (for a plant at Charlestown, Ind.). These contracts were the first moves made by the U. S. Government to increase its pip-squeak peacetime powder supply. All Government powder now comes from three plants - Du Pont and Hercules and the Army's Picatinny Arsenal near Dover, N. J. - and Picatinny is on little more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: Shot & Shell | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...Ponts have contracted to build and operate a $25,000,000, Government-owned powder plant near Charlestown, Ind. Capacity: 200,000 Ib. per day. "This plant will be completed and in operation within ten months. In 1917 the contract for construction of the first powder plant was not signed until seven months after we had entered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: Mr. Knudsen's Eggs | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

...rests his stand on the assertion that the Massachusetts Constitution and General Laws are being violated by the Russell contract. Citing a decision handed down by the eminent Chief Justice Shaw of Massachusetts in the case of Sherman v. Inhabitants of Charlestown in which a 17 year old girl was barred from the public schools because of her moral background, Dorgan points out that the case is not only applicable to teachers as well as to students but that it also applies to Harvard as well as to the public schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONGRESSMAN WORKING TO EXILE RUSSELL | 5/14/1940 | See Source »

Arriving at 2:30 o'clock, the singers will be greeted by Jerome D. Greene '96, Secretary to the Corporation, before begining their tour. After the Lowell concert and a visit to the other Houses, they will board busses at 4 o'clock for a concert in Charlestown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell House Concert Is Feature of Today's Cossack Chorus Visit | 12/2/1939 | See Source »

...late entries was Betsy Waffie of Charlestown, who plans to "put the Waffie on the Harvard gridiron." The seventeen-year-old world's champion batonnetter came dressed in a royal blue marching uniform, and carrying her pet one pound and ten ounce brass baton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Batonnetters Register In Person for Contest | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

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