Word: welds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even as the last weld was made in Big Inch's main line, thick crude oil was oozing along its veins (24 in. in diameter) from Texas, up through Illinois, across Ohio. Built in one year, Big Inch burrows through eight states, tunnels under 20 rivers. Soon it will shoot 300,000 barrels of oil a day to the petroleum-thirsty East...
Proposal. President Roosevelt had casually mentioned at a press conference last October his belief that the time had come to weld the islands of the Caribbean into an economic team. He added quickly that sovereignty would remain unchanged, suggested instead an international trusteeship for which the new Anglo-American Caribbean Commission might serve as a model, implied that if the experiment was a success the pattern might replace the battered mandate system throughout the colonial world. He spoke of studies going on to extend the franchise, overhaul the social and educational system, lift the economic level, encourage self-sufficiency...
...more scenic activity rowing on the Charles will be given with instruction by Bert Haines and Ken Dennison. Weld Boat House will be open from 2 to 6 o'clock daily except Saturday to the paddle pullers. Upperclassmen may take out the singles, but the Freshmen can not get credit for rowing singles until fall, V-12ers will not be given credit for singles...
...shells will be moved to Weld Boat House where under Bert Haines, Crimson crew mentor, they will still ply the river, holding intramural races and perhaps a few contests with M.I.T., but no races off the Charles...
...single shells and whereles which formerly went out from Weld will still be there, with facilities for fully as much if not more rowing. Including the morning jaunts of the 80 odd Navy men now rowing daily...