Word: lined
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Hundreds of alumni from north of the Mason and Dixon line and east of the Alleghenies will invade Harvard a week from tomorrow to visit classes, attend a symposium on "The Relation of the United States to World Affairs," and dine in majesty at the Harvard Club...
...line-up next December will wipe out the ward system of politics, and councilmen will have to run on a city-wide program. Harvard representatives will find themselves philosophising to the factory workers from Lechmere, and Mickey Sullivan will have to chat with the Communists of Harvard Square. Perhaps when East Cambridge and Brattle Street are concerned with each other, the "good people of the town" will be a little less parochial, the "others" less resentful; and Harvard-Cambridge relationships more friendly...
Thus did the Atlantic Coast Line launch the 1,500-mile trip of its "Live Stock Development Special." Object: to build Florida's cattle and forest industries, up the State's cash income, and help A. C. L.'s traffic. Less extravagant than it looks, the trip costs A. C. L. only about $5,000. An other $5,000 (for exhibits, advertising, etc.) is borne by Florida's Department of Agriculture. The third partner is University of Florida's Agricultural College, which contributed three months of hard preparatory work, a staff of 20 specialists...
Meanwhile, 260 miles west, near the Ohio State line at Edinburg, Pa., it was the Burton Powder Works' (American Cyanamid Co.) turn. A half-ton of dynamite (one of the stablest of explosives) blew up. Dead: the three men within reach of its thunderous punch...
...production workers of Vultee Aircraft at Downey, Calif. Work on a whacking backlog of $84,000,000 (including orders for $50,000,000 worth of vitally needed Army training planes) was stopped. Left in the factory hangar were 17 completed BT-13 Army planes. On the assembly line were 20 more that would have been finished by week's end. To Downey rushed War Department, National Defense Commission and Labor Department officials to confer with C. I. O. men and Vultee officials about the union's basic demand: an increase in minimum wages from...