Word: northwesterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northwest corner of the Yard, what was once the most inclusive of all undergraduate organizations. Phillips Brooks House had to adapt itself to the ways of wartime social service. The building itself was turned into a combination children's day nursery, chaplains' office, housing bureau, and teatime center for Navy wives; the War Service Committee promoted blood donations among the remaining undergraduate body and sold war bonds and stamps in the House dining halls at noontime. The traditional Freshman teas were a strong point in holdovers through the war. PBH is now gradually picking up its former peacetime function...
Norman Wells, Northwest Territories...
Heavy snows kept Oregon lumber camps closed during most of January and February. Strikes crippled production in the pine forests of the Pacific Northwest and the redwoods of California. Everywhere, lumberjacks grown used to soft city ways in high-paying jobs in war plants were none too eager to head back to the low pay and hard life of the woods. Those who did go back found a lack of portable sawmills, crawler trucks, etc., although lately the Civilian Production Administration has been handing lumbermen priorities to get them...
Just for the asking, Cedric Malcolm Adams can get almost anything in Minnesota. As the Northwest's favorite radio and press gossip, he has found homes for 50,000 minnows, 76,000 other animal, vegetable and mineral objects including baby alligators, pianos, crutches, white mice, a skunk, an artificial leg and four corsets. Once he asked his fans to help a widow who had lost her $37 income-tax payment. More than 57,000 responded, each mailing a penny to Cedric. Last week, the Pied Piper casually asked his public for a solution to the nylon shortage...
...irreverent New York Daily News suggested: "Why not put the UNO world capital in the northwest corner of Mexico . . . somewhere in the neighborhood of the famous Mexican towns of Tijuana, Agua Caliente, Mexicali (Mexicali Rose, I Love You), and Ensenada? . . . [This] would be close to Hollywood, through whose portals pass the most beautiful blondes, brunettes and redheads. The younger and handsomer of the UNO male secretaries could spend alternate weekends in Hollywood and Mexico, entertaining and being entertained...