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...very core of the U.S. war effort-last week produced at 15% below capacity despite a five-year backlog of munitions orders. Instead of the patriotic hustle & bustle which throbs in most defense-plant towns, Akron was a gigantic time bomb, relentlessly, awesomely ticking. Over the place hung a pall of suspicion, bitterness, hatred. Management and labor wrangled, sparred and fought. Root of the trouble is the six-hour day started by management during the depression, now grimly held by the union as a labor "asset...
Flames spurted from the smoke, swept the superstructure. White steam billowed up within the pall as hoses played on the fire. Beneath the smoke, passengers crowded the windward decks. There was no shouting, no panic, even when they heard an officer call out an order to flood the magazine...
...pall that hung over the Fogg has been lifted for some time, but it has apparently descended upon Mr. Weren, since he is content to continue carrying around his old prejudices. It is experience with the cold and cruel world that has cut the long hair of traditional thinking from the Fogg. If Mr. Weren will come over we will endeavor to help him with his. Frederick R. Grace '30 Instructor in Fine Arts...
...Fogg's sudden announcement. It is imperative that such a vital and, prior to Pearl Harbor; such a widely disparaged subject be put under competent direction if it is to make any contribution either to the students or to the science of camouflage. It is about time that the pall which has so long surrounded the far corner of the Yard be used to obscure a more vital military objective. Edward C. Weren...
After a few parties Vag was getting thoroughly depressed. He never had been one to pep up a party, and nobody else seemed inclined to do anything about the pall over the festivities. On the night before Christmas he sat at home and read about Scrooge and Marley and Tiny Tim, but it didn't make him feel any better. Neither did the radio version of the Bible story about the star in the East and peace on earth, good will to men. Before, Christmas had always been a lovely mixture of candlelight and fir trees, beautiful organ music...