Word: dowe
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...example, what happened to me andmy friend John G. Short '70 during the 1968 Dowsit-in. A recruiter had come to campus from DowChemical, the company that made napalm, analuminum soap made of various fatty acids which,when dropped from planes in wartime, wouldsometimes burn the backs off children. Dow bacamea symbol of greedy corporate investment in the warin Southeast Asia...
...Anyway, Dow wanted to hire graduating Harvardstudents. (This was 1968 and the unemployment ratewas 3.6 percent.) The anti-war folks started ademonstration to block the recruiter form hisprospective hirees...
...series of protests led up to the dramatic takeover of University Hall. In University Hall in 1968, students trapped a recruiter for the Dow Chemical Corporation, the manufacturer of Napalm. It was Harvard's first-ever sit-in an administration building...
...Dow Jones industrial average closed at 3768.52, down 3.70 . . . N.Y.S.E.'s composite index was down 0.17 to 254.17. . . Nasdaq Stock Market composite index rose 1.05 to 743.43 . . . American Stock Exchange up 0.75 to 442.59 . . . Gold dropped 30 cents to $380.40 on the Commodity Exchange in New York . . . The 30-year Treasury bond closed with a yield of 7.21 percent, down from 7.27 last Friday...
...series of protests led up to the dramatic takeover of University Hall. In University Hall in 1968, students trapped a recruiter for the Dow Chemical Corporation, the manufacturer of Napalm. It was Harvard's first-ever sit-in in an administration building...