Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...objectives." A huge munitions works on one side of the University balances Boston's extensive shipping facilities on the other, and defense factories are strewn throughout the entire metropolitan area. Harvard is slow to move fast, but a week ago today the Administration announced the establishment of an Air Raid Warden's course scheduled for its first meeting tonight...
...speakers on various aspects of the Air Raid Precautions Program, and a 20-minute movie, "Warning," on a British air raid, will fill the program for the preliminary meeting of Harvard's new air raid warden training course, at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening in New Lecture Hall, Assistant Dean Henry Chauncey '28, announced last night...
...content of the 15-hour basic training course for air raid wardens, open without credit to all students, officers, and employees, was announced by Assistant Dean Henry Chauncey '28, last night...
...fire fighting control, with a laboratory demonstration, will follow, and there will also be a lecture and demonstration on incendiary bombs and their control. Other subjects to be taken up are high explosive bombs, gases used in warfare and protection against them, blackouts, and the organization of Air Raid Precautions Services...
Dean Chauncey emphasized the fact that the satisfactory completion of this course, together with 10 hours work in Red Cross training which may be taken either simultaneously or afterwards, fulfills the Federal Air Raid Warden requirements. As a result students may serve as a warden in their own community, as well as in connection with the University's Civilian Defense setup, which will be set up after midyears. Graduates of the course will form the nucleus of this organization...