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...rapidly converting merchant ships into carriers; it is pushing a big program of regular carriers (eleven had been announced up to Dec. 7). And it is doing even more. Last fortnight, Rhode Island's Senator Peter Gerry put on the public record a hopeful and hitherto secret fact about U.S. carrier construction: "The Navy is converting to aircraft carriers a number of ships planned as cruisers. . . . You can imagine what will happen to the rest of the Japanese fleet when we get these new ships in commission...
...revolutionary trend in airplane production got off the ground last week: stainless steel. Aluminum, which has hitherto been aircraft metal No. 1, had a challenger on the production lines and battlefronts, and in the post-war future...
...Patching up surface flaws in aircraft castings, which have hitherto been rejected and junked...
...service is a prospicient and liberal decision. Remembering that Harvard's primary aim is to make its students perfect physical specimens, the University has taken this further step to insure their good health. By closing the dining halls the University also will save that fraction of their sugar ration hitherto allotted to the undergraduates. The principal motive, however, is not patriotic, but rather the fulfillment of the all-out Make-the-Students-Healthy program. In order to forestall the pending epidemic of ptomaine poisoning, the officials at Lehman Hall have ordered that the remaining supply of chicken pies, family style...
...sell, the Class of 1918 began a spring social event with an unusual title and erratic make-up to parallel the Junior Dance and Senior Spread. Vocal competitions were its core of attraction with a reception, concept, buffet supper, and a dance tossed in "to attract even those who hitherto have taken no pleasure in listening to men's choruses...