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...This shift in the seating arrangement is admittedly an experiment, and whether it works or not is a question which cannot be answered until well into next fall. But, successful or not, the H. A. A. is doing its best to give the Crimson cheering section a better look at their team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seats and the Houses | 5/15/1941 | See Source »

...Even plants on more than one shift usually had most of their workers on the first, frequently used the others just to enable one department to catch up with another. In the 67 plants there were 33,236 workers on the first shift, 10,541 on the second, only 3,035 on the third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The 24-Hour Day | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...Defense assistants concluded that only 20% of machine-tool plants approximated full employment, that the 67 plants could add 40% more workers (upping employment from 46,812 to 65,162) if two-or three-shift operation were used to maximum advantage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The 24-Hour Day | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...have failed to appreciate . . . the laudable and sensible attempts of our Sovereign's royal father to spelg the English language as it ought to be spelt. . . . The English language cannot be spelt, because there is no English alphabet. We make shift with a Latin alphabet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Simplified Spelling | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...Mass for the British in St. Patrick's Cathedral June 4 (which happens to have been the birthday of King George III). This is the first Mass for Britain in the history of the great church dedicated to Ireland's patron saint. It indicates a meaningful shift in Irish-American Catholic sentiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prelates for Britain | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

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