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...they had time, its ten members might have toasted their accomplishments all night. They had served as watchdog, spotlight, conscience and spark plug to the economic war-behind-the-lines. They had prodded Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones into building synthetic-rubber plants, bludgeoned the President into killing off doddering old SPAB and setting...
...well as his war work, and the military conversion of Harvard to a total war effort in which Conant played a major role, the article predicted that the Harvard President's name would soon come into the spotlight. "Keep an eye on Conant of Harvard," it said, "-- scientist, educator, and man of ideas worth listening...
Staying out of the spotlight, yet efficiently meeting the employment needs of a Harvard at war, this busy little office located in Wadsworth House now has the task of regulating and adjusting the problems of over 3,700 University employees...
...Results. Most Cleveland munitions makers think the customs and working habits at J. & H. are as preposterous as the bonuses which put the company in the national spotlight. Bill Jack has only one answer - production. Roars he: "We're turning out more per man than anybody . . . and more stuff per square foot of plant than any other plant in the country." J. & H. started exactly two years ago with 90 employes, a handful of machines in a small Bedford factory and a newly designed aviation starter. The War Department liked it well enough to order...
What with the football season over biting winds driving athletic spectators indoors, and the first game of the season, an exhibition, scheduled for Saturday night, basketball is now looming into the middle of the sports spotlight...