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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five-Day Week. From 1776 to 1835, the U. S. workday was 12 to 14 hours. Between 1840 and 1870, it was ten hours. By 1918, it had been lowered to eight hours. The next objective of the A. F. of L. is to reduce the U. S. working week to five days...
...procurement branches of the Army -Ordnance, Quartermaster Corps, Chemical Warfare Service, Engineers, Medical Corps, Signal Corps, Air Corps-have been linked, since the War, with civilian industries organized under reserve officers, as a measure of national defense. Army experts estimate that ten industrial workers are necessary to supply the needs of each and every uniformed soldier in wartime. Army arsenals would be capable of turning out only 1% of the artillery ammunition required by forces as large as the U.S. had in the field at the 1918 Armistice. The Army Ordnance Association perfects plans for the rapid conversion of private...
...colleges, in the Stadium in 1904. Harvard won 28 to 5, using so many substitutes as completely to disgust contemporary scribes. Touchdowns then counted five points each, Holy Cross made its in the following fashion: One of the Purple backs broke through the Harvard line within his own ten yard mark and got started down the field ahead of his interference. He was free of everyone but the Harvard quarterback who having no interference to bother with succeeded in dragging him down on the Crimson 40 yard line. For a moment it looked as though the Crusaders were stopped...
...original plan was to cut the squad to ten men in the trials last night. Due, however, to the unusually large turn-out for the debating team last Monday, it was found impossible to cut the squad to a small number at once. There will be at least two more sets of preliminary speeches delivered by the candidates before the final six debaters are chosen...
...board is divided into two sections one each for Cambridge and Boston. Those men who are assigned to the Boston division work in the office of the Boston Legal Aid Society, doing much the same type of work which they will meet when they graduate from Law School. The ten men who are assigned to the Boston division are divided into two groups, five of them serving before Christmas and five after that date. Each man is on duty one afternoon a week from 2 until 6 o'clock. It is customary for him to work with a member...