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...keeping with its policy of trying to boost backward Bunnies up to Dean's List, WLP will attempt to meet the distraction of the football game with Army tomorrow afternoon by offering more classical music. However, the powers that be in this newest radio station are conceding that Saturday night is not the time to study with the aid of the musical muse, and are going off the air at 5 o'clock...
Door-to-door canvassing of all students not enrolled in the University War Bond and Stamp purchasing campaign began yesterday in an all-out attempt to boost the total from the summer low of 35 per cent of the student body participating...
...Deputy Petroleum Coordinator Ralph Davies telegraphed an emergency appeal to nine oil companies to cut gasoline loadings and boost fuel-oil shipments to New England. Reason: winter comes early and stocks there are dangerously...
...threatened when the monsoon rains end in mid-October. Optimist Wavell compared Japan to a boa constrictor which has swallowed a goat and has to have time to digest it. He spoke of retaking Burma. Wavell's optimism may have been regarded by some as a military boost to the United Nations. But there was no cause for optimism in a political situation that, unless remedied, will endanger the United Nations' dealing with Asia for years. Intervention? Not so befogged as the British Raj was Frances Gunther of the onetime writing team of John and Frances Gunther...
...whole thing started in January when wide-awake, progressive Packard Vice President George T. Christopher began wondering how he could boost output without merely adding more plant or more men. Packard had plenty of war-production experience-it jumped the gun on all other automakers by snagging a British aviation engine contract in 1940. But its operations still lacked the drive needed for its terrific job, turning out endless thousands of Rolls-Royce aircraft engines (for Curtiss fighters) and Packard-designed supermarine engines (for PT boats). So Engine-Maker Christopher cooked up a production-boosting plan, based on the idea...