Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Family. General Controls was founded in an Oakland, Calif, loft in 1931 by William A. Ray, then 26, and his brother Charles. Fresh out of Stanford University's engineering school, and with $10,000 in capital borrowed from their father, the brothers designed an industrial fuel control unit, did badly. They did better with a thermostat control for home furnaces, but not till they invented a simplified home-heater control did sales start soaring. By 1940, sales were up to $612,848. Since then more than $2,000,000 in stock has been, issued, to finance expansion of their...
...membership, combined with Dunster's geographical isolation, produced an independent unit which was model of how the House system at Harvard should work. This year's graduating seniors are the last who were in touch with the post-war set, and the House at present seems to be in the position of feeling out for a new character...
Even with its present membership, on which it's almost impossible to pin a label--such as scholarly, athletic, or clubby--Dunster is still probably the most independent unit of the seven Houses. It innovates, it is chummy, it is cheerful, it is peppy, it is loud. Most of its residents find it more than a dormitory...
There has not been a better book written about soldiers. In recent years, I believe, there have been few better books written. Jones' saga of a Regular Army unit stationed in Hawaii in the months before Pearl Harbor is narrated with great humor and understandind, and with a degree of skill that is startling in a first novel...
...individual rights; throughout the book, the Army's dealings with him consist of a vicious, continued assault on his self-respect. After brutal treatment in a disciplinary Stockade, Pewitt kills a guard and goes AWOL; in the end, he is shot by MP's while trying to rejoin his unit after Pearl Harbor...