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Word: durant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Complete emergency equipment, including special fire hose trucks, equipment for demolition squads, autos for first aid workers, and scores of city deputy wardens, were in readiness for the raid. Chief warden of the Harvard district was Aldrich Durant, business manager of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLANES BOMB COLLEGE YARD | 10/11/1941 | See Source »

...Damago" reported by Durant's crew included 12 high explosive and incendiary bombs in the Yard, all in the open except for the one which hit Massachusetts Hall, caused four casualties and trapped six people in the wreckage. Fire started, but the truck and first aid squad stationed outside Harvard Hall put the fire in check

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLANES BOMB COLLEGE YARD | 10/11/1941 | See Source »

...April 29 Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University, announced that the Dining Hall rates had to be increased to $9.00 for Freshmen and $10.00 for upperclassmen. Durant blamed the wage increases for employees and other "numerous adjustments benefiting employees" as the cause for the increase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memories of Harvard-Union Arguments Aroused by Yale's Struggle With CIO | 10/10/1941 | See Source »

...Scott, director of the Peabody Museum, chairman; Keyes De W. Metcalf, director of the University Library; James A. McLaughlin, professor of Law; Mason Hammond, associate professor of Greek and Latin; Andrew J. Casner, professor of Law; Henry Chauncey, assistant dean; John M. Russell, assistant to the President, and Aldrich Durant, business manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard to Organize For Local Air Defense | 10/7/1941 | See Source »

Died. Louis Chevrolet, 62, the oldtime racing driver the car is named for; in Detroit. Backed by W. C. Durant, he started making Chevrolets in 1911, lost faith in the car's future, stepped out of Chevrolet Motor Co. three years later and then sold all his holdings. One of the world's great drivers, he entered his first race in 1905 as a substitute, outdrove famous Barney Oldfield, set a record of 68 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 16, 1941 | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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