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Soon billboards screamed "Halo Wawa."Seattle newspapers snapped it on the end of news stories. Through the aisles of the Webster-Brinkley plant stalked Chief Yellow Lark, onetime janitor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, in full tribal regalia. His answer to all questions: "Halo Wawa!" Over the central juke-box system into Seattle beer parlors came bugle calls followed by the stern admonition: "Watch your conversation! [Dramatic pause.] Halo Wawa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Halo Wawa | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...this curt manner, amazed Hudson officials learned that they had been ousted (one top man got the information from a janitor). After Oct. 28, when the present Navy-Hudson contract expires, Hudson will no longer operate the 14-building arsenal which it built for the Navy in 1941, has operated since. The new manager: Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Commando Raid | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...Janitor's office in all Houses are desperately understaffed, making the moving problem one of local college ingenuity rather than general grammer school brawn. it require two to four men to move a good-sized, well-stocked sophomore within an hour, and when five or six men want to move in one day, it over-works today's janitor staff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHORTAGES IN MANPOWER AND TIME TO HIT CIVILIAN HOUSES | 10/15/1943 | See Source »

...play-yard contains what PBH describes as the last metal swing in the city of Boston, as well as a hose shower and galvanized iron wash-tub. Thirty boys and girls play with the crates. Swings, and toys, while the PBH janitor gleefully squirts then with the hose. Supervising the activities are four trained assistants, while the PBH secretaries lean out of the windows to watch the frolic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wartime Tots Play New Yard Roles | 7/16/1943 | See Source »

This V-12 business had made a difference right there, he noted as he reached the House. The fellows standing around the janitor's office had no stripes on theirs--just plain black neckerchiefs. The only variations in the blue and black color scheme were on the sleeve or in the splash of color above the breast pocket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 7/1/1943 | See Source »

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