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...left their jobs, surged laughing through Seattle streets, attended a lengthy meeting of Lodge 751, A.F. of L. International Association of Machinists. To the WLB they delivered an ultimatum: unless the board decided their wage case by Sunday night, the local union would hold continuous mass meetings of off-shift workers. They called on labor in other big West Coast plane plants to do likewise...
...scheduling order to which the Army, Navy and Maritime Commission reluctantly agreed. The order (which Charlie Wilson carefully called a mere codification of proved practices) specified the degree of control he would have over three classes of materials. It gave him kingly powers to shift war orders, make manufacturers toe his mark. But Charlie Wilson promised the armed services he would use the new powers only in an emergency and with their approval. Thus did he effect a truce with the Army & Navy...
Sunday's announcement of a symmetrical three term calendar represents only in part the answer to an increasing dissatisfaction over the inequalities of the present division of the academic year into a College and Summer Session. The shift is actually one of a series of major steps which Harvard must make in order to mould its program to fit the demands of the Army and Navy...
...fortunate that thus far the demands of the services and the interests of the students have coincided. But students must soon face steps which will run counter to them, since demands made upon the basic science courses by the undergraduates, Army and Navy will require a shift of faculty from smaller courses or allied fields. Eventually some courses must be sacrificed altogether, for at all costs the University must fulfill its obligations towards servicemen sent here for instruction. But students can still be thankful that for once their interests and those of the Armed Services are the same...
Arthur Guy Empey, 59, famed private who wrote World War I's best-selling Over The Top, was rediscovered by the camera's eye: he works on the "graveyard shift" as a guard at Vega Aircraft's plant in Burbank...