Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...date at which ERC orders will arrive has been subject to much speculation, but Perkins stressed that now with the recent shift in ERC policy at last straightened out, there is every reason to believe that orders will be mailed almost immediately. Under present plans all students will receive their two weeks notice before induction...
...Where students lived two to a room in Perkins and Conant, the chaplains have been crowded in six to a suite. The present figure of 6000 men eating in the 16 University dining halls could be it is estimated advanced to 10,000 by the installation of a military shift and self-service system...
...sailor Eddie Bracken from knowing that his father, Victor Moore, is not the studio's head, but its gateman. This indirectly involves such sequences as when the Golden Gate Quartet steals the "Dreamland" number from Mary Martin and Dick Powell, a hilarious ride in a jeep, and a "Swing Shift" number with luscious brown Donna Drake swinging it in a good deal less than a shift...
About 15 men were working all last night around the University running four tractors and a truck equipped with snowplows. Another shift came on at 6 o'clock this morning and started shoveling the steps and the walks as soon as the snow stopped, Roger B. Johnson '17, superintendent of the Maintenance Department, said last night. If necessary, two additional trucks equipped with snowplows will be put in service today. Johnson said that he was using equipment sparingly because of the gasoline shortage. In the previous years extra men have been hired to meet emergencies like this one but because...
...strutting Sharp As a Tack; Vera Zorina does a veil dance; Betty Hutton, during a wild, bruising ride in a jeep, sings a ditty known as I'm Doin' It for Defense; a shapely crew of aircraft workers sing and dance a number called On the Swing Shift. Bob Hope, closeted with an angry man in a shower bath, is good...