Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friday evening will be taken up with registration and a dinner at Brooks House. Overnight the girls will be put up at professors' homes and the boy representatives at College dormitories...
...same team that fell before the weaker opposition of Cornell by a score of 31 to 27 the night before. Overnight the Crimson changed from an erratic, ragged five to a swift-passing, sure-fire combination that handed Dartmouth its second defeat after the Big Green had romped over such teams as Fordham, Wisconsin, Vermont, and Seton Hall...
...officials are optimistic over the likelihood of substitution, and engineers are already eying Ford's elaborate, automatic machines for making cylinder sleeves. Overnight these can be adapted, with no essential changes, to making 80,000 sleeve-like steel shell casings per day. The Army eyes the whole project with faint, traditional mistrust...
...stretchy substance which its German inventors about 1927 called Buna (Bu for butadiene, Na for sodium). It was not a very satisfactory synthetic: but better than the methyl rubber (dimethyl butadiene) of World War I, when it was said German Army trucks often had to be jacked up overnight so that their solid tires would not flatten out permanently under their weight. German chemists soon discovered ways to make superior products by combining butadiene with other substances and co-polymerizing, making a rubber called Buna-N or Perbunan and another called Buna-S, widely used in Germany for auto tires...
...Colonel's biggest headache is not a shortage of workers but of supervisors. Factories and 144 U.S. engineering colleges are training some (Lockheed has 2,300 in a training school), but level heads and leadership are not produced overnight...