Word: squashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Varsity Squash Racquets...
Meadville was still boom, not ghost town. Farmers backed their trucks into the market square, did a brisk business in tomatoes, pale green roasting ears, cucumbers, cantaloupes, bright yellow squash. On Saturday there was no parking space to be found in front of the clothing stores and banks on Chestnut Street. Young factory workers jitterbugged until 2 a.m. in juke-box honky-tonks. Lights burned all night in Talon's plants; change of shifts at 2:30 p.m., 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. involved a major traffic problem...
...turning out 1,200 pilots a year. Quickly the figure was upped to 7,000. Before the Air Corps got a good start it was lifted again, this time to 12,000. That meant stepping up the schooling about ten to one. The job went to husky, squash-nosed Brigadier General Davenport Johnson, overseas pilot of World War I and a flying veteran of Black Jack Pershing's expedition after Villa in 1916. By the time Johnny Johnson had got on the job, the Air Corps had started revising its whole training scheme. It had given primary training (first...
...President seems determined to us his newly won emergency powers of force to restore production. If so, he might better bring his influence to bear on N. A. A.'s prosperous owners to concede the seventy-five cent minimum wage asked by the Union than order his Army to squash the picket line. Such a move would be less liable to the cries of "Communism" which would arise on every hand than is the present proposal to charges of Fascism...
...addition to his tennis letter during his Sophomore year, he won a letter in squash, He was a member of the squash squad this year too but did not play in the Yale match. He succeeds Rosslyn A. Lyelf '41 of Ryc, N.Y. as tennis captain...