Word: berths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railroads used four times as many day coaches as Pullmans to haul troops, and at night a doughboy usually had to fold himself up to rest on a dusty, red-plush day-coach seat. Today's soldiers travel across the U.S. two in a lower berth, one in an upper.* The Army now gets 28 Pullmans for each coach. The War Department's Services of Supply gives other reasons than comfort for preferring Pullman travel: 1) when troops move at night by sleeper, nobody is the wiser; 2) civilian rail traffic is lighter at night and trains make...
...Robinson chums up with Donald Nelson, wangles materials with finesse. Along with the new berth he acquired the rank of vice admiral, highest ever held by a "staff "(technical) officer of the Navy. Nowadays he rarely has time for his hobby: gardening. He gets down to his office by 8 a.m., seldom leaves before...
Established as G.M.'s most dollar-conscious aviation troubleshooter, Breech was a natural for the Bendix berth. Bendix Aviation manufactures a full line of delicate aviation instruments, hundreds of electrical gadgets, generators, carburetors, braking systems, etc. All these are 100% war items. But Bendix suffers from growing pains, has not expanded as fast as other munitions makers. Sales last year were $156,000,000, four times 1937, but still not big enough to supply 1942's war needs...
...Buckley, who showed signs of returning to his old form in the Princeton game Saturday, will again hold down a forward berth along with Chick Lutz, while Bunks Burditt will be back at his familiar center position. Captain Bud Finegan and Don Lutze will probably start at the guard posts...
...ROTC's, or have not already made satisfactory plans concerning commissions and degrees can be interviewed by an officer of the Marince Corps at University 20, during the next two days. But they will not find it any draft-dodging device or soft war berth. The Marines may want a man with a sheepskin, but they want to train him to lead platoons in combat. Their officers are now serving from Greenland to the Philippines and from Alaska to the tropics. Part of the U.S. Navy, the Marine Corps is the spearhead of our first line of defense. Each division...