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Last January, the Tennyson committee's first skeleton-simple, material-&-labor-saving Utility Furniture was on sale: 45 designs of 17 essential pieces. Wood was used only for legs, struts and supports. Metal was allowed only for bedsprings. All flat surfaces were made of a compressed wood fiber ⅛ inch thick called hardboard...
Filling out the present skeleton proportions of the Student Council to 16 members, seven new civilian representatives will be chosen from the Classes of '45 and '46. The election will be held on Tuesday and will be conducted at large in the House dining halls during both the noon and evening meals...
...request of the War Department in 1929, the Southern Railway System organized a railway operating battalion. . . . While we were at peace . . . the battalion existed largely as a skeleton organization, with . . . officers . . . keeping up with military and transportation developments . . . to be prepared if they should be called. . . . That call came. . . . The battalion was then designated the -th Engineer Battalion, U.S. Army, and was the first military railway organization to be activated...
This year Oxford's Eights Week was only a haunting ghost. The now shabby barges were deserted, the towpaths staid. But, to keep up tradition, as Britons will, 23 skeleton crews-made up of medical students, underage youngsters and a sprinkling of special study reserves-bumped one another on the lonely Isis...
Today ATC, big as it is, is still only a skeleton of the vast structure it will become by the end of this year. Its operating lines already vein the world. Its freighter pilots fly along the Alaska highway, past Whitehorse to Fairbanks; its delivery flyers whip fighters and bombers close to Bering Strait to be turned over to Russia for the eastern front. Freighters, and bombers on the way to combat, cross central Canada to Greenland, Iceland, Britain. They blanket the Caribbean and sweep across Mexico. They fly down both sides of South America...