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...order to qualify as a cadet, candidates must be not less than 18 nor more than 25 years of age on January 1, 1942, must satisfy rigid physical requirements, and must pass a written examination in algebra, plane geometry and physics...
Twenty to twenty-six years old; single; two years of college with work in algebra, plane geometry and plane trigonometry three are all required of the student who would take this navigation training course. But the physical standards are not as exacting as those required of either pilots or bombardiers you can get by if your eyes are twenty-forty without glasses and twenty-twenty with...
...Senate passed a bill last week which 1) made sense, 2) overjoyed a lot of people (and one pint-sized algebra teacher), 3) cost a mere $20,000,000. This sensational measure, which the House is expected to approve speedily, aroused no controversy at all. The paragon bill simply permitted the U.S. to pay two-thirds of the construction cost of unfinished sections of the Inter-American Highway between Mexico and Panama. The Governments of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama will pay the other third...
...have dreamed of a Pan-American highway, happiest dreamer last week was probably Richard Albert Tewkesbury, 34, skinny, frail, 112-lb., 5 ft. 3 in. algebra instructor at Harding High School in Charlotte, N.C. "Tooks," as he is known to the students who tower over him, is mild, puny, deep-voiced and bashful; he has peanut-sized biceps, and looks wan. Any critical Southern mammy would describe him as "peaked." He is also lionhearted, stubborn, iron-nerved, grimly determined, and a hero...
...Candidates for appointment as flying cadets (who must have the equivalent of two years of college credits) learn algebra, trigonometry, history and other academic subjects at a number of Air Corps bases...