Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invent their patter as they go along. The studio is just across the hall from the elevator, and people constantly pop in to ask the way to the manager's office, the men's room, etc. Some get yanked right into the program. So do many night-shift workers who drop in for laughs in the early morning. President Alexander Grant Ruthven of the University of Michigan, a devoted listener, once asked the boys to find a horse which had strayed from his stable. They broadcast an appeal to the horse to go home because he was breaking...
...column drove to within 25 miles of the Bryansk-Kiev railway, which links the German armies in the Ukraine with those on the northern front. If this drive between the fronts succeeds in cutting that line, the Russians will have made it less easy for the Germans to shift forces laterally from south to north. That would hamper the Germans in their effort to counterattack eventually in the north as they did last week in the south...
...left their jobs, surged laughing through Seattle streets, attended a lengthy meeting of Lodge 751, A.F. of L. International Association of Machinists. To the WLB they delivered an ultimatum: unless the board decided their wage case by Sunday night, the local union would hold continuous mass meetings of off-shift workers. They called on labor in other big West Coast plane plants to do likewise...
...scheduling order to which the Army, Navy and Maritime Commission reluctantly agreed. The order (which Charlie Wilson carefully called a mere codification of proved practices) specified the degree of control he would have over three classes of materials. It gave him kingly powers to shift war orders, make manufacturers toe his mark. But Charlie Wilson promised the armed services he would use the new powers only in an emergency and with their approval. Thus did he effect a truce with the Army & Navy...
...fortunate that thus far the demands of the services and the interests of the students have coincided. But students must soon face steps which will run counter to them, since demands made upon the basic science courses by the undergraduates, Army and Navy will require a shift of faculty from smaller courses or allied fields. Eventually some courses must be sacrificed altogether, for at all costs the University must fulfill its obligations towards servicemen sent here for instruction. But students can still be thankful that for once their interests and those of the Armed Services are the same...