Word: joinings
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week a big part of the answer came from the best possible and most unexpected source : hulking, close-mouthed William S. Knudsen. who gave up the $300,000-a-year presidency of General Motors last summer to join the National Defense Advisory Commission (for nothing) as head of its production section. Big Bill Knudsen had kept his mouth shut while the press reported instances of slow delivery on airplanes, tanks & guns, of scrambled priorities for defense orders, of unexpected delays in such vital things as production of the Army Air Corps's Allison aircraft engine. But last week...
...Freshmen and Sophomores as well as Juniors taking the Naval R.O.T.C. course have been instructed by letter to apply for admission to the summer training cruise this year. In the past the cruise has been compulsory only for Juniors, although less advanced men have been urged to join...
Roland Young, instructor in Government, opened the meeting with a plea that American liberals, instead of attempting to form a third party or pressure-group of their own, join forces with the existing party which most completely expresses their views. Young added that, in his opinion, the present Democratic Party best fits this definition...
...freighting business. The gentleman with whom she later contracts Arizona's first all-white marriage is genial, peripatetic Peter Muncie (William Holden), a slim and smiling young pioneer who rides into Tucson with other settlers and passes some fond words with Phoebe before setting out for California to join the Union Army...
...Club, which absolutely anyone may join, not only in theory aims at helping both the recreational and serious skier in college, but glances at the past membership lists consistently show that this idea has been carried out. The hackers completely overshadow the "silver spooners" in both spirit and number. William Wigglesworth '41, Manager, Ski Team; Thomas Winship '41, President, Ski Club...