Word: welds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gibbs set out to cut the amount of labor that goes into a ship by the usual methods of mass production-designing parts that are easier to make, devising easier methods of putting them together. Shipbuilders, shown the way, figured out how to weld joints from one side instead of both, for example: built small ships upside down...
Probably the Harvard Regiment, faced with the prospect of drilling all summer under seasoned and exacting American and French officers, could just barely groan once more when the Military Office in Weld 3 informed the students that the Regiment would take "a long hike of 250 miles during the month of July 16 to August 15." Already by June jubilant headlines in the CRIMSON heralded the long awaited arrival of machine guns for training purposes: "Third Machine Gun Here... Lecture on First Aid... Collection To Be Taken For Ammunition...
Wigglesworth, Weld, and Grays Halls will house the majority of today's registrants, with Farlow and Walker Houses also serving a number. '46 students who were admitted later then the rest of their classmen have been assigned to Claverly and Dudley Halls...
South of Massachusetts Avenue lies the realm of upperclassmen, the land of Houses, clubs, and tailoring establishments. On Holyoke Street, south of the Hygiene Building, is the Indoor Athletic Building. At the foot of Boylston Street near the Cambridge end of the Lars Anderson Bridge, is the Weld Boat Club, home of single scullers. On Massachusetts Avenue are Holyoke and Little Halls...
Because of overcrowding in the Houses it is possible that some of the dormitories in the Yard, which are not being utilized by the Navy, will be used to house Freshmen. Grays, Wigglesworth, and Weld may be opened in the Yard, and Farlow and Walker outside. Since the Union is entirely taken over by the Navy for the duration. Freshmen will probably have to eat in the Houses; information regarding housing and feeding will be sent out shortly...