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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until the source of ore in Labrador can be fully exploited, the steel mill can get its raw material from the already developed mines in Belle Isle, Newfoundland. The Mystic River Iron Works now produces 500 tons of pig iron daily from the Newfoundland ore. But the Belle Isle vein is not as rich as the ones in Labrador; thus, the further expansion of the New England steel industry will have to wait until a transportation system is established through the Canadian hinterland. Though a truck road now cuts across Labrador, it will be a few years before a railroad...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

...practice started with a brief kicking drill and would up with 15 minutes work on the tackling dummies, one of the first times since the Stanford game that the team has had such a workout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eleven Works on Offense, Defense | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

Early in 1941 the Russians sent Grots's parents to Siberia. Grots escaped, but when the Germans invaded late that year, he was sent to Karlsbad to work in a china-insulation factory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Seven Displaced Persons Slip Easily into University Routine | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

...seventh of the students is Polish born Benon Przybielski '51, whose father was killed in 1939 and the rest of his family, except one brother, sent to a concentration camp. The brother joined the underground in Warsaw, but Benon was sent to do farm work in Germany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Seven Displaced Persons Slip Easily into University Routine | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

...captured and again sent to Germany to work in the ruins near Berlin. At the end of the war he returned to Poland but left almost immediately, because the Russians had taken over. He returned to Germany, finished high school, and in 1948 received an IRO scholarship to the University of Hanover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Seven Displaced Persons Slip Easily into University Routine | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

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