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Duhig's two right hands are represented by the "contact" women who place 90 percent of the students. Mrs. Barnes and Miss Baldwin, each a specialist assigned to her own field, carry an equally heavy load and are charged with the engulfing job of placing all the camp councillors, chauffeurs, research chemists, tutor-companions, cooks, bellhops, waiters, and infinite number of others who apply at the office...
...made trouble for the roads with the connivance of the Army. Congressman Hall (who has a brother at Fort Benning) introduced a bill that would help some 800,000 draftees get home for Christmas. If they do, many a would-be civilian traveler might not. To handle this fearsome load, railroadmen insisted on a staggered 16-day schedule, last week huddled over the problem with the War Department...
...jeep positively will not fly, but there is a widespread notion in the Army that it can do anything else. Last week in Washington there was a rumor that the midget was going to be equipped with 75-mm. guns. Since the jeep's practical load limit is 800 lb., it could hardly tote a 75, which weighs 3,900. But it is steady as a mule under the recoil of a 37-mm. antitank gun. If, under stress, the jeep should turn over, it is a simple matter for a few soldiers to set it right side...
Maria Montez, the red-headed South American starlet, will be the Student Union's guest-of-honor at the annual Memorial Hall mass dance this Friday, when 600 girls collected by the bus-load from all nearby girls' colleges, will meet an unpredictable number of Harvard stags...
Sperry's procedure: 1) the total manufacturing load is forecast as far ahead as possible; 2) a Methods Department determines what operations must be undertaken by Sperry itself; 3) the remainder are turned over to a Subcontracting Department which, on showings made on educational orders, farms them out. Full technical assistance is lent subcontractors; so sometimes is money...