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...result of Monday's statement Yale is committed to abandoning practice this coming spring. If all its competitors continue to drill in April and May, it will be a long, cold fall in New Haven. And there is good reason to doubt that other colleges will fellow the Elis lead in cutting spring practice...
Jordan, using variations on his usual offensive formations, emphasized scoring during the afternoon's drill, working Dick Clasby, Dusty Burke, Hardy Cox, and Gil O'Neil from passing spots...
...Cass, lanky end who hurt his leg in a practice early this week, will probably he sidelined for the Tigers, Jordan revealed after the session, and it is likely that he will use "Slug" Dolan in his place and Fritz Drill behind...
...industrial might is based on machine tools. These are the ingenious devices that, in war or peace, automatically drill the bores in rifles, stamp the fenders for Cadillacs, cut the turbine blades for jet engines. They range from small machines, such as workshop lathes that sell for a few hundred dollars, to giant, 404,000 lb. complexities that automatically cut and shape a 32-ft. section of an airplane wing, and cost as much as $400,000 (see cut). Even the giants are operated by only one or two workers, and speedily perform chores that would otherwise take dozens...
...ever been made before." In the same way, other complicated problems are dumped in Geier's lap. Samples: ¶ The Air Force wants a tool that can cut 2,800 Ibs. of metal down to a complex wing gear weighing 200 Ibs., with contoured surfaces, tricky drill holes, etc.