Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy had confidently told WPB that it was giving the workers six weeks' notice. But stopping delivery of completed planes (at Brewster's assembly plant in Johnsville, Pa.) six weeks hence had meant the prompt shutdown of Brewster in Long Island City, which makes sub-assembly parts far in advance. The Navy, doing things its own way, had not troubled to find out how Brewster operated, before moving in on the kill. And Franklin Roosevelt's two high-powered agencies to handle reconversion (in WPB and OWM) had been asleep when the violence was done...
Work among prisoners in the Far East is not so thorough. But since Pearl Harbor the Y has given limited relief to Americans in 70 camps or sub-camps in Japan. And recently it won Jap consent to purchase in the Philippines $25,000 worth of supplies monthly for American prisoners there...
...sub-strength Harvard tennis team plunged its record deeper into the red ink on Wednesday by dropping a match to Deerfield's schoolboys, 5 o 4. Coach Richard M. Dorson's courtmen had previously lost to M. I. T., Harvard-graduates, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute...
Then, suddenly, it became evident that G-men were patrolling the plant. Posters appeared on bulletin boards forbidding the firing of any employes without Government sanction. A sub-executive tore one of them off, was instantly handcuffed, hustled off to jail and charged with stealing Government property. His explanation: he just wanted to show it to his boss...
...Form the Battalion" will start its career tomorrow morning when the new stripers will be announced. Just between us, let's speculate on Rehurek for Battalion Commander; Hoffman for Sub-Batt Commander, Bryan for Company 3 "Hep-ster," Wanvig to take over for Company 4, with Bergen and Harty for Company 3 Platoon Leaders, and Stallard and Moss for Company...