Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Publication locale of the CRIMSON will shift from Cambridge to New Haven tomorrow in honor of the Bowlfest and its accompanying stream of displaced Harvard men. No regular circulation to undergraduates will be made here...
...general, Forbes's new leaders were salaried men who had risen through the ranks. As often as not, their financial stakes in the industries they ran were small. More than anything, the lists of new and old leaders showed the shift in power in the last 30 years from the empire builders to the empire managers...
Workers on the first 9 o'clock shift feared that the clearing of a foot of water, which had settled over the entire base of the structure, would require most most of the night and part of this morning...
...shift mean that the British voters loved the Tories more? Hardly, since even the Tory leaders themselves were so unconfident of their party's principles that they had clutched socialism in a tepid, awkward embrace. Certainly, however, the British voter loved Labor less. A month ago, before the awakening, a TIME correspondent touring England by car ran into evidences of leaden disgust and shamed resignation. Said a Coventry bricklayer...
Automatic Pickup. General Motors' Buick division, which plans to make only minor body changes in its 1948 model due in January, still plans a major mechanical revolution. The '48 Buick Roadmaster, said the division, will have no clutch, clutch pedal, or customary gear shift. For normal driving, the motorist will merely have to push a button; the accelerator will do the rest. There is also a reverse gear and "emergency low" for snow and mud. With rising production and a backlog of 520,000 unfilled orders, Buick hopes next year to pass Plymouth, into third place behind Chevrolet...