Word: packs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point; 2) Deep in the Heart of Texas prompts workers to clap their hands and let production go hang; 3) vocal refrains tend to distract rather than to stimulate; 4) music during the last 20 minutes of the working day is likely to be taken as a signal to pack up and go home. Burris-Meyer did not even attempt to play Strip Polka, for fear of provoking a complete breakdown of production...
...were harder than last year, but "what they need is whatever it takes to keep them going when they are cold, wet, tired and hungry." He recommended marching five miles an hour (which requires some running) with full pack. One outfit showed General McNair results; on a problem lasting three nights and four days without letup, hungry, cold and tired, the unit marched 35 miles with full pack...
...last week from WPB's Industrial Conservation chief, shy philanthropic Lessing Rosenwald, as he announced a new all-out drive for industry's "dormant scrap." Donald Nelson backed up his chief junkman in even tougher talk: "The one thing we must not do," he said, "is to pack machinery and equipment away permanently or in grease against the end of the war." Every existing piece of machinery must be used now for war production, for replacement parts for other machines, or for scrap...
Sept. 14-A submarine wolf-pack attacked. Escorting warships scattered to cover the area with depth charges. Apparently some found targets, because debris, even green vegetables, came boiling to the surface. Twice waves of bombers concentrated on the British aircraft carrier, but protecting warships ganged up, drove them off with casualties...
...which includes some of the largest colleges in the country, has only a handful of men, in comparison to some of its hicktown neighbors. Illinois leads the pack with 10, and the rest of the Conference dwindles down to Michigan, which has none...