Word: float
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army intelligence-test questions given draftees are kept simple. Sample: Will a boat float in water...
...Chicago Daily News last week reported news of this new U.S. air front. In a dispatch datelined "A Labrador Air Base," Newsman B. J. McQuaid told how construction crews waded ashore from ships off Labrador, cut down trees and built rafts to float their first equipment ashore, then built a corduroy causeway to the ships, then hauled enough tools and material ashore to build a dock. Afterward, in 20-ft. snows, they cleared a roadway 100 miles inland, built an airport complete with runways, hangars, living quarters...
...occurs in Weld Boathouse which would make Harvard Square on the night of a College riot look like a picnic. Of the 2500 men who use Weld every week, some 200 students late each day busily enter and leave single sculls, "comps," and wherries at one end of the float, while at the other end approximately 16 House crews struggle with each other to get their shells in or out of the water. The rest of the float is well taken care of by around 50 potential rowers, who wander aimlessly about taking sun baths, watching crews come...
...rush down to Weld at the same time, and all arrive within five or ten minutes of each other. There seem to be but two solutions to this problem: one technical, the other general. The technical answer is that men make an effort to tow away from the float as rapidly as possible, not stopping until they are perhaps 50 yards away from the Boathouse. The general solution, however, is more important and would probably be far more successful. It is to have three or four of the Houses use Newell Boathouse instead of Weld. If Newell were assigned...
...first blimp squadron has been operating since January from the first base: Lakehurst, N.J. A second base, at South Weymouth, Mass., is open. Operating squadrons will not base at either South Weymouth or Elizabeth City for a few weeks, until a stock of new blimps float in. The West Coast blimp squadron bases at Sunnyvale. Calif. Two more bases are to be constructed soon (Florida, Southern California); one more is contemplated in the Puget Sound area of Washington...