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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leaving by plane Saturday, the Varsity crew will arrive on the West Coast Sunday and continue their twice-daily workouts in preparation for the finale of the Crimson's first post-war rowing season, facing the nation's strongest crews in the University of Washington's invitation regatta June...
...hours boiled into violence last week. The Communist-tinged Canadian Seamen's Union called out 5,000 members manning the ships that ply the Great Lakes. The issue: an eight instead of a twelve-hour day. The union claimed that on about half the 153 lake ships, striking crews had walked out. Strike leaders tried to block the Welland and Cornwall Canals, vital links between Lakes Erie and Ontario, and Montreal. Strikers swarmed aboard the freighter Goderich in the Welland Canal, drove or dumped the crew ashore, lashed the ship to the lock. The canal was blocked...
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After getting out of the tanks and onto the river March 11, the Varsity crew spent a hectic two months trying to fit the right man in the right seat for the quadrangular race against Cornell, Princeton, and M.I.T. on May 4. Stroked by Lou Cox, who replaced be-measled Toby Ross two days before the meet, the Varsity boat finished strongly, with enough of a kick to catch Princeton in the last half mile but not enough power to head a strong Cornell eight; M.I.T. finished last. On the same day, the Jayvees were nosed by Princeton and Bert...
...harbor, the Washington, one of the two largest U.S. passenger liners, was getting ready to sail for England. At the last minute the sailing was canceled. Reason: the United States Lines, which runs the Washington for the War Shipping Administration, had refused to fire an assistant purser whom the crew, members of the C.I.O.'s National Maritime Union, did not like. So members of the N.M.U. refused to sign on the Washington. The War Shipping Administration ordered the Washington sent to a shipyard for reconversion to peacetime travel...