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...American merchant ship was on the high seas this week carrying the highest-paid able seaman in U.S. maritime history: tough, balding Joe Curran, $5,200-a-year president of the C.I.O. National Maritime Union...
Chaffee's contributions to the training of Uncle Sam's men did not begin with this war. During World War I, Chaffee was a $1-a-year research man for the government and developed a new signaling device and method of directing torpedoes by radio. For many years he has been giving a one-year post graduate course to groups of Naval Academy graduates who, as Chaffee proudly points out, are some of the leading lights in Radar today...
Snooping for Reds in Government jobs, Texas' unesthetic Representative Martin Dies lumbered smack into esthetic John Bovingdon, 53, $5,600-a-year economic analyst for the new Office of Economic Warfare. Forgetting both Reds and grammar, earthbound Martin Dies cried: "[Bovingdon's] record and career as a ballet dancer is well known...
...prove it, and the College published the pamphlet. Before young Mr. Brownlee could say oleomargarine, the dairymen of the Hawkeye State were shrieking that his 35-page pamphlet had jeopardized the nation's entire food program, and had wrought "untold injury" to Iowa's $100,000,000-a-year industry...
...years ago sober, scholarly William McChesney Martin left his $48,000-a-year job as president of the New York Stock Exchange, entered the Army at $21 a month. Private Bill Martin learned that a man who had worked 18 hours a day in civilian life (as he had) could climb fast in the Army. Painstakingly he learned to shoot a rifle, even tried to pay the Government for extra practice ammunition. In his tent at nights, he studied military histories, textbooks on strategy...