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...mine passed small white mounds. Nobody troubled to dig the bodies out. But one of the officers in the camp command said: 'It is a pity we've lost their clothing.' " A typical Vorkuta camp, built around a mine pit, consists of some 30 long, low, Quonset-like barracks made of vertical boards and roofed with hand-reeved board shingles. The cracks are chinked with mud and cinders, and two coal-fed brick stoves supply heat. Rows of double-deck bunks run the length of the building, but frequently prisoners have to sleep on the floor. Buckets...
...housing boom, no one has done better than James Robert Price of Lafayette, Ind. As founder and boss of National Homes Corp., Price has succeeded where many another failed: he proved that a prefabricated house can be mass-produced and sold at a profit without looking like a Quonset hut. Last year Price sold 14,127 nonfarm houses; in 1954 he will account for one out of every 48 started. On a gross of $41 million, National netted $1,700,000 in fiscal...
...teaching, it now seems to have negotiated successfully the experimental period and to be setting down into an established pattern. The size of the student body seems relatively stable at about 300 undergraduates and 70 graduate students; it may again increase when projected new buildings to replace the present Quonset-hut-like structures are erected...
School faculty members on occasion venture out of their Quonset hut offices to participate in fact-finding boards and investigating committees in specific labor controversies. One faculty member helped to advise a Congressional committee studying possible revisions in the Taft-Hartley Law. Dean Catherwood himself has served on groups investigating the New York waterfront situation and the recent dispute between the railroads and their non-operating employees...
...miles south of Newport when she took the explosion at 6:20 a.m.-on the way from refitting in Norfolk to her home base at Quonset Point, R.I. As soon as the alarm was flashed ashore, the Quonset Point Naval Air Station rounded up all helicopters in the area and began a ship-to-shore ambulance service. Fires were under control by 8, but as the carrier glided up Narragansett Bay at 12:30 p.m. for her homecoming, rescue parties were still prowling through the blackened compartments, and the dead, shrouded in white blankets, were spaced across the hangar deck...