Word: hood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believed that Thompson-Whittier A,B,C, and D had fallen by the wayside, after we had given Mr. McNeill lists upon lists of all their reports, found ourselves face to face with the real thing on our last field trip. At that time, we discovered that the Hood Rubber Company is the origin of our last statistical headache--and they really use all those reports...
...should be conserved. There was no "Jackson" nor "Lake"; but it's just as well there wasn't, for we, who believed that so many reports, memorandums et. al. were unnecessary, are wrong. Every one of the reports shown in T.W. has a place in the procedures of the Hood Company...
...Army had its 1,000th movie theater opened last fortnight-at Camp Hood, Tex. To celebrate the event, Army Motion Picture Service* Director R. B. Murray was given a surprise party with a monster ceremonial cake in Washington, D.C.'s Tower Building lobby. During World War I, soldier movies were provided by the War Department and welfare agencies. When the AMPS was founded in 1921 it had only "a woefully small sum of money ... a few buildings which were theaters in name only." Today it operates in all 48 states plus Alaska, Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad, Hawaii, Puerto Rico...
...Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft pictured on p. 29 of your May 17 issue will not, as captioned, "Shuttle Steel to Kiska" or anywhere else. ... Its lack of armament and the odd-shaped "holes" in the hood door and fuselage stamp it unmistakably as something other than the P-38 interceptor pursuit or fighter bomber...
...commencements throughout the U.S. It was signalized chiefly by the tramp of 8,000 militarized student feet. Harvard gave only 1,115 academic degrees (against its prewar 2,500), but conferred 4,000 training certificates on Army & Navy officers, officer candidates, and Radcliffe WAVES. Only one honorary academic hood* was slipped over a distinguished head, and that belatedly-Joseph Grew, '02, had been confined in Tokyo when his LL.D. was awarded him a year ago. Last week he was back among such friends as Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, '13 and Governor of Massachusetts Leverett Saltonstall...