Word: layoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Earl Brown, who succeeds Wes Fesler as hoop mentor, plans to use the trip to keep his players in condition during the long holiday layoff and to give them a taste of the better brand of basketball which generally prevails in the West...
Swede Anderson nosed out Johnny Page for the pivot position on team A, though both are rated about evenly for the position pending the return of Ayres to steady service. George Hibbert, Sophomore tackle, returned to action after a layoff of several days and performed creditably...
Hence Meadville was slow to believe that depression could strike while the whole nation boomed in '41. The layoff of Talon's first 800 was hardly noticed; they were boys and girls fresh out of high school, mostly from neighboring towns and farms. Some of them found jobs at the Viscose plant across French Creek, some quietly went back home. The State Employment Service was busier with the seasonal layoff of cooks and waitresses in nearby resort hotels than with Meadville's first priorities casualties. To many a citizen, the "priorities problem" meant the serious difficulty...
Last week, after a winter layoff during which 4,000 raw ratings were trained at the Kiel Submarine School by veteran U-boatmen, the Germans were out in force again with another tactic which was the fruit of winter experiments: hunting in packs. Survivors arriving at a Canadian port told of having been attacked by "at least three or four" German submarines; others arriving in Manhattan referred to "a nest of at least seven subs." In one recent case, nine simultaneous torpedo explosions gave a convoy its first warning of the presence of submarines...
...after a day of swirling dogfights over the Channel, the German bombers came back to London. It was the longest and heaviest raid Britain had had in four weeks. But to the straining British it was not long enough or heavy enough to account for the month's layoff...