Word: units
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...getting such work as they are capable of out of men whose limitations he understands. "Pink" Harrington is a West Pointer and his No. 2 man is no fuddy-duddy. Howard Hunter spent 18 months with the A. E. F. as an officer in Tulane University's medical unit, was a Boy Scout executive, for ten years a professional fundraiser for Community Chests-picked by Harry Hopkins, who was once an expert in private charitarian money-gathering...
...March 31, 1937, at Sun Oil's Marcus Hook plant hard by the Delaware River, engineers charged Houdry Unit 11-4 with 15,000 barrels of sloppy residuum after Sun's thermal cracking refiners had squeezed every drop of gasoline they could from the crude. Up went the heat to 900°. Pressure was applied. And as still men and panel men anxiously watched the gauges, the vaporized residuum was forced through the macaroni-shaped catalyst of silica and alumina. When 11-4 had done its work, yield sheets showed that the waste oil had given...
Stanley C. Salmen '36, secretary to the Board of Freshman Advisers and former president of the CRIMSON, has been appointed General Secretary of the School and College Group of the Community Fund Campaign and Assistant Chairman of the Harvard Unit, it was announced last night by Jerome D. Greene '96, Secretary to the Corporation, and Chairman of the General and Harvard groups...
...eyes of the community in which it is situated, this will be the initial admission on the part of Harvard as a corporate unit that even a temporary resident must shoulder some of the responsibility for the welfare of the social group in which he spends a part of his time. To be sure members of the University have given generously in the past to the support of the various relief agencies of Cambridge and Boston, but previously they have done so under some regional classification other than that implied by membership in the University. For this reason the organization...
Godwin and Walker obtain their very bright, very brief flash by discharging 38,000 volts through a vacuum tube filled with mercury vapor at one-twentieth of atmospheric pressure. The voltage source is an X-ray apparatus and the current is stored in a 20-unit Leyden jar condenser...