Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administrative Board of Harvard College has decided to resume the pre-war policy in regard to absences from classes on the day of the Yale game at New Haven. Classes will meet at usual, but the Administrative Board will not take disciplinary action in the case of absence from classes on December 1, the day of the Harvard-Yale game. Absences on the days Immediately preceding and following December 1 will, however, be considered as especially serious...
...kept in efficient operation at least for a few months longer. . . . I did have 96 men and 9 officers; now I have 77 men and 8 officers, with 16 additional men and two officers eligible for release already. And there are no replacements at all. At least, I haven't been able to find any, nor has anyone else I know...
...Famed Piper Aircraft Corp. was neck & neck with Taylorcraft. Shrewd, quick-moving President William Thomas Piper, whose planes hedge-hopped up & down the front lines during the war, is making 300 planes a month in his Lock Haven, Pa. plant, hopes to edge his output up to 600 planes a month by January. While most of his competitors concentrated on one plane, he had shrewdly put two models into production, the Piper Cub Special ($2,010) and the three-place Piper Cub Super Cruiser...
...into effect. Last week Sewell Avery promptly rescinded the order. Said one War Department official: "Hell, Ward's would have stopped the check-off and maintenance if we'd stayed here until the Second Coming. That's why the whole business was such a farce. We haven't accomplished a damned thing...
Please address all mail-bags to Jackie Adams, Haven House, Smith College, Northampton, Mass. Sincerely yours, Jackie Adams...