Word: conservationism
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The typical K.U. coed has undergone a big war change, too. Never noted for her earnestness about a career, she used to join a good sorority, date the field as freshman and sophomore, go steady with a well-heeled fraternity man in her junior year, get engaged as senior, marry...
Vocational schools, many of them already on a year-round, 24-hour basis, are planning summer sessions, often with four daily six-hour shifts. Although "regular" high schools anticipate no great summer expansion, most are enrolling boys & girls for farm and factory work. The U.S. Office of Education Wartime Commission...
Beneath the directors, who also run the Germanic Museum, the Semitic Museum and affiliated Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington, D. C., The Fogg branches into a network of specialized divisions. The Department of Conservation is probably the most fascinating with its tasks of detecting art fakes and of restoring...
If the coastal fires were the work of Axis agents, their purpose was twofold: to cloak submarines from the prying eyes of U.S. aircraft on patrol; to drag men from vital war factories to fight the fires. Fire-fighting manpower was at a low ebb. The draft had cut deeply...
Many had written to Washington ("hundreds of thousands of letters," said one WPB official) demanding to know why, if the Government needed tin to replenish dwindling stockpiles, it didn't come and get it. WPB's Bureau of Industrial Conservation admitted that the long-delayed nationwide campaign to...