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Harvard misogynists, currently avoiding the powder-puff contingent by hiding in the stacks of Widener or staying in their rooms all day, are fighting a losing battle. Thus it is that even the pages of the CRIMSON, hitherto strictly a man's paper, will soon bear the by-lines of some of our more talented sister students...
...barring troop movements on a hitherto unheard-of scale, there is still no evidence that travel by rail must be limited to essential trips. Most railroaders agree with the harried Union Pacific official who held his head last week and groaned: "Our dispatchers are collecting the damnedest set of ulcers you ever saw . . . but the only thing we have had to do is to tell some of these guys that, if they don't mind an upper, they can have it now. That's all it has really meant-changing the habits of the way people travel...
...story involves the marital difficulties of a hitherto happy couple when on their tenth anniversary the wife discovers that she is really unhappy because her husband is spending too much time and attention on his work and too little on her. So she decides to divorce him, and the play deals with his efforts to keep his happy home from disintegrating. Familiar as this theme sounds, the characters themselves are even more so. First there is the heroine, a beautiful, intelligent, well-meaning wife of the Candida type, who decides that financial prosperity isn't all there is to life...
Thiokol is an elastic plastic made by Dow Chemical Co. Its merits as a retread material, hitherto overlooked, were enthusiastically presented to WPB last week by an authoritative group of experts from the rubber, chemical and automotive industries, headed by famed Research Engineer Charles Kettering of General Motors. They told the Government that Thiokol...
...Stainless steel is more durable, stands up four times better than aluminum under the incessant vibrations and strains which can "fatigue" a plane's metal structure to the breaking point. Result : longtime maintenance of steel planes is easier. Hitherto this factor has not been important, but engineers think that after the war air transports will be built (like railroad cars) to stand the strain of at least ten years of heavy duty...