Word: pcs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard this year was, in conjunction with the other NSA colleges in the Boston Area, to put into operation a working Purchase Card System. Harvard's committee was selected to head this operation. If we take a look at the results of the first few months of the PCS in Boston we can see that a successful, working system has been set up: there have been about 2500 Purchase Cards sold in Boston: the nucleus of stores participating has grown from 26 to 42 since March. In short, the main goal of the NSA Purchase Card Committee has been well...
...sold, and we sold 550 cards. We will be the first to admit that this is low, bat if considered in its true context as a part of the whole, which was quite successful, and not as the whole, which was quite successful, and not as the whole PCS itself, then it certainly does not constitute ground for labelling the whole year's work of the committee as a "failure...
...World War I's "Cinderella" has gone through a face lifting. There are two types for 1942: 1) a 110-ft. wood-hulled boat for inshore work, 2) a steel-hulled 173-footer for oceangoing. A third and larger one is in the making. These are the PCs...
...PCs are fast enough to catch their quarry, can wheel about on their heels to follow the squirmings of U-boats below the surface. Their main weapon is the depth charge, to open the enemy's steel-laced seams. They carry a medium-size foredeck gun, a battery of anti-aircraft machine guns...
Whether the PCs will prove effective will be shown this summer when a considerable number of PC units get to work. The men of the PC have firm faith; a lieutenant commander, veteran of the Battle of the Atlantic, audaciously predicted: "We'll turn off this Nazi submarine campaign like turning off a faucet...