Word: coping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people might perish in an enemy-set fare engulfing San Francisco's wooden structures, with the prevailing west wind; 2) the heavy inbound blanket of summer fog invites a Jap attack; 3) telltale water outlines make an efficacious blackout impossible; 4) the fire department could not cope with incendiary bombs; 5) the military had discouraged a systematic tryout of the city's air raid sirens...
When the Auxilitary Firemen are not able to cope with a situation, they work in coordination which the Cambridge Fire Department. Also, Auxiliaries may be used as a reserve and stand by to aid the regular Cambridge force if their assistance is required...
...away on ice until after the Democrats have won the November elections is the final draft of a National Service Act that will give Paul V. McNutt's Manpower Commission power to cope with "labor emergencies" akin to the powers now held by the British Government...
Employment Service will serve as a national teacher placement agency, steering jobless teachers from glutted areas (e.g., New York City) to the places where shortages exist; 2) a teaching program to salvage the illiterate 10,000,000; 3) a plan to cope with teacher shortages in two critical war subjects-200 colleges and universities will give free courses this summer to convert teachers of other subjects (English, Latin, etc.) into math and physics teachers...
Founded in the months before Pearl Harbor as the Defense Service Committee, the WSC was recently revamped and enlarged to cope with the civilian problems of Harvard at war. Under the leadership of Chairman Adam Yarmolinsky '43, the Committee has been organized into five divisions: blood donors, bond and stamp salesmen, social service committee, a group to handle the recruiting of volunteers, and a committee on publicity and speakers...