Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terms of the N. I. P. A. offer the recipients positions for ten months from September 1939 to June 1940 with one of the major government departments in Washington. They will serve without compensation and will be expected to pay their own expenses...
...candidates for the Freshman track managerial competition have reported, according to Manager Roger S. Hooper '39. Last year there were eight at this time. The winner of the competitions gets a major letter. Candidates should report to Templeton Smith '40 before or immediately after vacation...
...main objective of the Congress is the consideration by as large a number of students as possible of the legislation pending in the present session of Congress. Major issues now up in Congress will be discussed in eight Committees based on the committees in the National Congress, including education, social security, relief, civil liberties, Wagner Act, health, agriculture, and foreign policy...
From the CzechoSlovak seizure Germany will get seven major armament and several aircraft & engine plants. The arms factories consist of the four plants of the Skoda works, a big subterranean plant in Slovakia, the famed Witkowitz plant near Moravská Ostrava, partly owned by the Rothschild banking interests of London, and a government-owned steel works at Kladno which manufactures rifles, revolvers and sabres. Other valuable things produced by Czecho-Slovakia were the air-cooled Tatra and Walter airplane engines. None of the arms factories, however, can be run without substantial imports of raw materials. All told...
Blasted were electric power, gas, water, telephones. The toilet belched black sewage. But that day the Corbetts, millions like them in 20 cities over England, carried on. Repair crews filled the craters in the streets, restored skeleton public services. Two surgeons in Southampton's hospital performed 230 major operations in seven hours. Corbett dug a trench in his lawn, kicking himself for having laid by no gasproof room for a bomby...