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...hoist and handle ammunition, and all safety precautions involved in gunnery. Recognize all types of Navy Protechnics, and be able to make tests of smokeless power. Understand the principles of fire control, the principles of electricity involved, and how to handle Naval mines, depth charges, torpedoes, and to adjust recoil, counter--recoil, gas ejectors and firing mechanisms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAVY | 5/16/1942 | See Source »

...directorscopes, periscopes and range finders. How to hoist and handle ammunition and all safety precautions involved in gunnery. Recognize all types of Naval pyrotechnics, and be able to make tests of smokeless powder. Understand the principles of fire control, the principles of electricity involved, and how to handle and adjust recoll, counter-recoll, gas ejectors, and firing mechanisms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAVY | 5/16/1942 | See Source »

...declaration of faith-in-himself on the part of every individual in the democratic countries, the WPM head states: "We must, to begin with, drop the idea that change comes slowly. It does ordinarily, in part, because we think it does. Today change must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMART MEN NEEDED FOR WAR, WPB CHIEF SAYS | 4/28/1942 | See Source »

...obvious intimacy with the world situation, stands as the most war-torn department of all the various language fields and English. The smaller departments have found that their cliques of faithful adherents will not desert them to the more warlike concentrations, and the larger have been able to adjust their programs and retain their usefulness and attractiveness...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: Effect of War Varies In Language Fields | 3/24/1942 | See Source »

Both the Chemistry and Biology departments have found it necessary to adjust the number of courses they offer. Convinced of the need for all chemists to have identical basic training, the Chemistry department has made no changes in the content of its existing courses, but has added Chemistry 2b to its program. This concentrated course in organic chemistry, the only course added by the department since Pearl Harbor, is a full course pressed into one semester to prepare its 15 enrollees for the early opening of medical schools on July...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: Practically Stressed in Organic Sciences | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

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