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Culminating a series of measures designed to relieve the current shortage of housing for married veterans, the University has applied to the Federal Housing Authority for use of sections of Fort Devens as a "Harvard Colony." Supplementing this request, announcement was made yesterday of plans for erection of Quonset Huts contingent on available FPHA facilities...
...these bases were far from finished when Japan surrendered. Except in Hawaii, there had been little permanent construction, in iron and concrete, during the war. Kwajalein and Saipan, Iwo and Okinawa had been filled first with tents, then with temporary buildings such as Quonset huts. The life expectancy of these structures, under tropic rains and salt spray, is scarcely more than two years. If the bases were to be any good a few years hence, the corrugated iron must be replaced with reinforced concrete. At Wake, Marcus and Truk, where U.S. forces did not land until after the surrender...
Projected to increase Stillman's present 65-bed capacity by at least 50 beds, plans for a Quonset hut installation connecting with the main building were still in the hands of Provost Buck yesterday but should be carried out by September, according to Dr. Bock...
...desperation methods such as Quonset huts are to be avoided, the Corporation must take stock of its own abilities to break the bottleneck. University lands are available; great portions of Soldiers Field He idle and could be utilized during the emergency. The fields close to the Business School would provide ideal sites if drained along the methods established by the University in establishing land for the government units. And it might well to remembered that Tech expects to get no less than 65 percent of its money back in rents, plus a small amount in serap value from its Westgate...
...doctors decide to bench Swegan, who was injured in the Quonset game last Wednesday, Iris shortstop position will be filled by Butler...