Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Please believe me, I speak from a wide and varied knowledge of the people of Britain, there are men and women in that country today of courage and integrity and ability to build and construct--H. M. Ambassador Halifax is a very long way from approaching their standard--old England is not as decadent as you might suppose from your acquaintance with him. Jane Conrad...
Baldish, greying, affable and modest Colonel Parker bosses an army of more than 1,400 subordinate engineers, some 9,200 construction workers. When he is not working in his map-and-chart-laden office, he travels over his huge project in a TVA plane. Says he: "We are able to get specialists in our organization and keep them, because of the nature of the work. We exchange ideas. We not only design our projects but we have our own force to construct them, so that there is co ordination...
Karl O. Lange, to construct the mechanical part of an air-pressure transmitting station and to maintain an automatic radio barograph station under the adverse weather conditions of Mt. Washington (6000 ft.) while recording in Boston...
...There is no point in producing goods for Britain without seeing to it that the goods are safely shipped, since, if they are sunk, they are simply wasted." He supplemented this by pointing out that, "Since Britain is having ships sunk as a rate of twice their capacity to construct, sooner or later there will not be enough ships available." The Defense Group feels that the crisis they were referring to has now arrived...
Graduation is the nemosis of Coach Jacko Mikkola's Varsity track team-1941 edition. It has left the barest skeleton of a cinder squad from which to construct a formidable aggregation able to carry the Crimson colors to victory in the wearying spring schedule that opens with a B.C. practice meet Saturday, faces Dartmonth's powerful Big Green on May 10, and roaches a climax with the Yale contest...