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Unless someone forgets the old Army axiom. "Keep Your Mouth Shut, etc., and Never Volunteer," the midshipman-officers school will not be represented in the SERVICE NEWS after this issue. This writer has apparently devoted a little more time to his scoopin' than he should have. In witness whereof, see Exhibit One, Disbursing Grades of 8, slant 2, slant 43. There must be someone else who can spare a few hours a week unscuttling things for our growing ensemble...
...suggestion that this department investigate the Art Hodes bend at the Hofbrau in Lawrence, Mass, was undoubtedly a partial violation of the cardinal Army axiom. "Keep your mouth shut and don't volunteer." Hence the fate that so often overtakes the sealous committee member who dreams up an idea and gets elected to the job of seeing it through...
There is an old and proven basketball axiom that it is hard to look good against a poor team. Sloppy basketball is infectious, and the hackers will invariably pull the better outfit down to their level. Harvard not only descended against the Elis; it stooped lower than...
Under the workings of this axiom most war firms are now at a 48-hour week or over because the Army and the Navy pay them to pay their workers overtime. On the other hand, most producers of consumer goods are working on a 40-hour week or less, because under frozen prices and material shortages there is no reason for them to push to higher levels. But such employers would willingly do the same work they are now doing with fewer men working longer hours if the 40-hour-week law were relaxed for the duration for most consumer...
Washington last week reproved an old gambler's axiom: the best way to make money is to play with other people's chips. While U.S. airlines did their biggest job in history, it was the airmail division of the Post Office which collected over half the ante. The division's reported profit for fiscal 1942, after deduction of its own direct expenses, was a record $8 million-more than half the total net earnings of all 18 U.S. domestic airlines. Next year the division will probably earn a cool $22 million or perhaps better, thanks mostly...