Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...market space in larger yards, leaving smaller ships for yards of less capacity." Although many U.S. yards, especially in the West, have not yet felt the initial boom, shipyards such as Kaiser's Vancouver, Wash, yard are being put into shape in anticipation of just such an overflow of orders-provided that the shortage in steel plate can be licked. "The shipbuilding industry will have to operate at 30% to 40% of its potential," says Leigh Sanford, president of the Shipbuilders Council of America, "if we don't get enough steel to meet our orders...
Speaking to an overflow crowd in the lecture room of the Institute of Geographical Exploration, Black said, "a great deal of improvement is needed in the clarification of terms...
Despite its opposition to expansion on principle, the report did include recommendations for easing the growth which it believed likely to occur anyhow. These included the building of an eighth House as an overflow House, and greater personal attention in tutorial, and by implication criticized tutors for not communicating their own intellectual enthusiasm to students...
...Council accepted most of the other proposals in the report, and accepted a last-minute committee addition that, "In order to insure an equal standard of efficiency and comfort for all upperclassmen we recommend that the eighth House be an 'overflow House' to accommodate those upperclassmen in Wiggles-worth and Claverly...
...same cannot be said today, when all eight brick dorms are filled to capacity, and when there are ten off-campus houses being used for the overflow. Since the statement of 1930, three dorms have been added--Cabot, Moors, and Holmes...