Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert W. Gillette '44 will head a sub-committee including Albert C. Kel- ly '44 and Wallace McDonald '44 to cooperate with the Student Council Committee on Food and discuss the matter with Dean Leighton. "Something has to be done," stated Gillette. "The food has been consistently worse since Christmas...
Focus of carnaval is swank, tree-lined Avenida Rio Branco. There on Sunday thousands of automobiles (mostly sub-jalopy seven-passenger touring cars) brimming with people in costume drive along in the "Corso" singing, pelting each other with confetti. Monday the "Ranches" take over the town, small clubs of marchers who skimp for months for their costumes, compete heatedly in dancing, playing, singing. Tuesday night winds up with a contest of mammoth floodlit floats. Wednesday, the first day of Lent, is a half-holiday conceded to the slack-jawed weariness of the city...
Thus Göring cannot be called the world's richest man. But he is certainly Europe's, probably the world's, most potent industrialist. Last month the Hermann Göring Works was reorganized under three sub-holding companies: one for mines and ore refining, one for arms and machine production, one for shipping and inland waterways. But the full range of its products (among them: synthetic oil, guns, turbines, textiles, typewriters, tanks, ships) is a Nazi secret...
This was where the Big Three came in. Their plan will not turn out complete planes in Detroit. General Motors, Chrysler and Ford will build airplane sub-assemblies, ship them to four midwest and southwest assembly plants, there to be put together by aircraft mechanics under the supervision of airplane manufacturers. Detroit has already prepared to build engines to fly bombers. Ford is building Pratt & Whitney engines, Buick will build a plant (near Chicago) to do the same. Studebaker will build Wrights. During the past three weeks, while the Big Three were preparing to produce airplane parts, order lists have...
...rock offers thin hospitality in this war. Angry are its forts, its schools of mines crowding ten miles out to sea, its anti-aircraft guns, its airdromes with hangars sheltered by bombproof rock quarries, its harbor-mouths teethed with 10-, 14-, 16-inch guns, its dockyard, its seaplane and sub marine bases...