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The people listened to the loudspeakers. Families were evacuated from coastal areas where people had been trapped in 1938. Officials, mayors, governors broadcast directions to police, citizens and civilian-defense organizations. Airlines grounded planes, schools closed, businesses let workers off early. Railroads and power & light companies gathered maintenance crews. Millions...
The threat was triple: Chernyakhovsky's forces aimed at the East Prussian border; Rokossovsky's and Zakharov's forces aimed directly west toward Berlin, but could swing north to envelop East Prussia, or north and south to envelop Warsaw; Konev's huge bridgehead on the upper...
According to Arthur Douropulos '31, secretary of the group, who teaches all courses, progress towards better use of English has been too slow and this has been largely the fault of the country's secondary schools. Even at Harvard the Committee finds many Freshmen who are not firmly grounded in...
¶ A Douglas Navy plane was grounded in Kansas through loss of an aileron hinge. The Douglas plant, within easy flying distance, had plenty of hinges, but all were beinturned out under Army contract. The Navy plane had to wait ten days while it got its hinge through Philadelphia via...
To the 32 members of a class for executives in the University's School of Business, he had given four two-hour examinations in the humanities and the social, physical and biological sciences. Fourteen of the examinees, mostly middle-aged men, had never been to college. Five of the...