Word: seismographic
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...squiggle was only one quiver on the seismograph of the labor earthquake shaking the Douglas empire last week. Other contracts were in the offing. In the huge Douglas Long Beach plant, 84% of the 23,000 employes voted in an NLRB election for representation by either the U.A.W. or the A.F. of L. Machinists. As neither received a majority, a run-off election will be held this week (U.A.W. is expected to win). Another NLRB election will be held in the Santa Monica plant, biggest in the empire, for 34,000 eligible workers. This one is not in the union...
Incidentally, we must announce with regret the passing of our little friends across the McKinlock Hall quadrangle. The psych boys graduated just before our furlough, much to the terror of the custodian of the Fordham University seismograph...
Landsberg said it is "quite conceivable that the ringing of alarm bells and quivering of seismograph needles in American universities may mark the end of Japan's aggression attempts and the proper time for the Allies to strike back at the islands...
Although the recent quake which rocked the floor of the Atlantic was recorded in every seismograph station around the world, it only created a little more work for the Information Booth at University...
...honorary degrees (in Latin) on Catholic Lieut. General Hugh A. Drum, Baptist Nelson A. Rockefeller, Jewish Governor Lehman and twelve other bigwigs, small, genial President Gannon had a wonderful time. He showed his guests an up-to-date university: Fordham has a big-time football team, a world-famed seismograph (earthquake-recording) station, a Nobel Prize winner (Physicist Victor F. Hess), a downtown branch in the Woolworth Building, schools of law, business, social service, pharmacy. Of Fordham's 8,200 students, only 1,400 are in its liberal arts college...