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They were not sad because General MacArthur, not always an enthusiast for air operations, had recognized and proved air power as an adjunct of vast potency to the ground and naval forces. The Germans had proved that in Poland, in the Lowlands and many times since. So, with great virtuosity, had the U.S. Navy...
...allowed, a suggestion previously made by the Secretary of War was adopted. Under orders of June 18, Rains was assigned to the river defenses, where the use of torpedoes was 'clearly admissible.' A time was to come when his 'sub-terra shells' were a welcome adjunct of the Richmond defenses...
...advertising world as the onetime chairman of Benton & Bowles and the man who said he would make a fortune and quit-and did. He came by his yearning for learning naturally: both his father and his mother were university professors. He sees the Britannica as a logical adjunct to U.C., which has always had a flair for combining scholarship with good publicity...
...time it has not changed its strict laissez faire attitude. Long before that time it was obvious that a highly-developed drama-arts school was persona non grata in the college curriculum. Under the late, revered Professor George Baker, the Club, and the drama course that was then an adjunct to it, molded a nation-wide reputation for Harvard theatricals. But in the fall of that year, the Dramatic Society was set on its wanderings, and Professor Baker's activities, including the then-famed course, English 47, abolished. Baker, exiled by the Brahmin purists, found a more appreciative reception...
Significantly, Nelson's ideas amounted to the first admission from any top-drawer Washington war man that hope of getting any large volume of war orders for small industry is just about gone-though that hope is still personified by a $150,000,000 WPB adjunct, the Smaller War Plants Corp.* But Donald Nelson's realism may nonetheless offer the little fellow a better break in the long run than all the gentle small-business panaceas that millions of words, good intentions-and taxpayers' dollars-have so far produced...