Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time it seemed that young Publisher Charles E. Thorp (Harvard '25) would be forced to pass up the publication of the third edition of his mammoth work. But he and Editor Glenn D. Angle, onetime chief engine designer for the Air Corps, managed to talk their way past a War Department order which would have stopped all scientific compendia. Finally, after approving the Aerosphere's text (and deleting much recent data which manufacturers had offered), the War Department ordered 300 copies. Publisher Thorp intends to present copies to the Chinese, British and Russian Embassies for forwarding to Chiang...
...Canadian dam will generate 1,020,000 horsepower, about 25% more than the output of Russia's huge Dnieprostroy dam, which was destroyed before the Germans came. In the U.S., Grand Coulee and Boulder will each ultimately generate around twice as much power, but Canada's mammoth (nameless for military reasons) outstrips the current capacity of both of them. And it was completed in two and a half years, half the time it took to get Boulder into production...
...Army camps, it would be almost an overwhelming Christmas. The menus read like a meal for Gargantua. At San Antonio's mammoth cadet aviation center, incoming packages averaged 12,000 a day. In Portland, 20 carloads of parcel post, mostly for soldiers, stood idle for days while the postmaster looked for help to distribute it. To the training center at Indio, Calif, would go 300 movie belles to dance with the soldiers...
There won't be anybody filling the mammoth shoes of Clint Frank and Larry Kelley when the product of Odell's first year effort trots into the Bowl. Individual stars are not an essential ingredient in the Odell formula, nor is any November circus stuff to be expected from this Eli mentor who is an avowed fundamentalist...
...large majority of the mammoth turnout were Freshmen, and Brown hasn't yet been able to get a line on them. After he's seen everyone's stuff, he plans to cut the squad to 25 or 30 men, who will function as a flexible Varsity and Freshman-Jayvee outfit. The regular Varsity schedule will be played with '46ers eligible, and the second squad will fill the old Freshman program. Brown will coach both; in the absence of Al McCoy, now a Lieutenant in the Navy...