Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this connection we would like to advise that the Liberty vessel, S.S. Jason Lee, launched from the Kaiser Co.'s Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. on June 27, 1942, was christened by Mrs. Walter E. Harris, wife of Walter E. Harris, Negro swing shift porter. . . . HAL BABBITT Publicity Director Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. Portland...
...Halsey, a fighting man. But the people saw the shift more as evidence of previous bungling than as a hopeful sign...
...Swiss reporters turned bland, unimpressed faces toward this routine announcement. Then Dr. Schmidt leaned his plump, manicured hands flat on the heavy table. "There will be," he said viciously, "no place for such editors in the new Europe. We will make short shift of them. Perhaps they will find their future home in the steppes of Asia, or maybe it would be best simply to send them off into the Great Beyond...
...shift of quotas has re-opened enlistments in the ERC to men in all classes, but they will be closed on December 1, the War Service Information Bureau announced last night. Students not 18 by January 1, 1943, may make preliminary applications for the ERC and if accepted can be enlisted as soon after January 1, 1943 as they become...
...History, Government and Economics studying than any they have to offer. Boylston Reading Room was closed when its head librarian got drafted at the beginning of the second session of Summer School. Now, rather than search too vigorously for a substitute, library officials are limping along on a make-shift summer arrangement that is unable to support the nearly normal enrollment in the College and in these social sciences. While assimilating the values of using a large university's research library, Freshmen are wasting time getting books and threatening to distend Widener's walls during November hours and reading period...