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...acres), building of a factory and homes, equipping a communal farm. Thousands of dollars went out the window when Resettlement Administration officials took to prefabricating concrete slabs for the houses, then couldn't find a way to join them. More was lost when they switched to casting cinder block, later found these could be bought for one-third the cost on the open market. Four years after the project was begun (1933) the first families finally moved in and the garment factory began to give work to about 60 needlemen...
Last spring the Crimson track men broke all records for scoring and Coach Jaakko Mikkola looked forward to a brilliant season in 1940. Old Man Probation made several inroads on the cinder aggregation, and several other disappointments left the coach in a position where the "cold facts of the winter season" were anything but brilliant...
...Governor's daughter, Helen Troy Bender, whacked a bottle of champagne on one of the goal posts, 500 bewildered natives, most of whom had never seen a football game except in the newsreels, watched the Sourdoughs beat the Baranofs, 6-to-0. The Gold Bowl was a cinder-strewn field, frozen sandpaper-rough. But nobody bled much. The players, onetime U. S. college footballers living in Alaska, were dressed in uniforms donated by the University of Washington...
Donald A. Donahue '41, aco Crimson hurdler and a member of the Yale-Harvard track team which will meet an Oxford-Cambridge cinder combine at White City, England, on July 15 has withdrawn from the high hurdles in order that Jay Shields, Yale captain elect, may make the trip and compete in the event...
...Norm Cabbera--these have become legendary figures in the annals of Harvard track. And there is no doubt that spectator interest in Crimson track teams has declined since the days when hundreds of athletes and thousands of fans annually poured into the Stadium to witness the country's college cinder classic--the I. C. 4-A meet...