Word: uso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Starting today, the American Library Association, the American Red Cross, and the USO are sponsoring the 1943 Victory Book Campaign in Cambridge. The collection of books for servicemen will be pushed within the College...
...University has taken no direct action on a Student Council proposal that the furniture of drafted students be purchased and stored, one solution was presented last night by Aldrich Durant '02, business manager of the University. The Citizen's Committee for the Army and Navy, an affiliate of the USO, has appealed through him to students to contribute their furniture to their organization for the benefit of members of the armed forces...
...such a proposal is acceptible to students of the College some sort of central depot might be established at Cambridge where stocks might be accumulated. Transportation to Boston would be undertaken by the USO. It was also possible that some system might be established whereby the USO would provide a truck which would pick up furniture at students rooms at a given date...
...USO at present needs primarily chairs, tables, sofas, lamps, phonographs, records, radios, books, and athletic equipment. The need for textbooks with special emphasis on those dealing with science, mathematics and engineering, is especially crying...
...established in any American city. The money collected is divided among all philanthropic activities of the community except thise which have direct religious affiliations. Beneficiaries include all the hospitals of the area, as well as Boys Clubs, the YMCA, and since the beginning of the war, the USO...