Word: booklets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever else he may have accomplished, Cummings set up a publicity man's dream background for the war's latest good-will publication, an eight-cent booklet, Meet the U.S. Army, issued by His Majesty's Stationery Office. Roughly paralleling the U.S. Army's Short Guide to Great Britain in purpose, this handbook on American character was written by pale, pensive Louis MacNeice, 35-year-old Anglo-Irish poet, author of Plant and Phantom, Autumn Journal, etc. Since the war MacNeice has bloomed as a top-notch BBC script writer. He acquired American background...
General Motors Corp., long harassed by controversy over its Allison aircraft engine, last week distributed a booklet packaged in heavy cellophane, and titled: Airplane Power (with special reference to engines and altitudes). With the booklet was a note from G.M.'s genial Customer Research Director Henry Weaver: "After a long series of controversial sessions with our different engineering groups, aviation experts and military censors, we finally decided ... to omit everything on which the experts are not in full and complete agreement. The enclosed is the result...
...enclosed booklet consisted of a handsome cover picturing four Allison-powered planes (Lightning, Airacobra, Tomahawk, Mustang), a noncommittal introduction and conclusion, and 40 blank pages...
...special booklet listing the courses which will be given to V-12 students seems to indicate that most students will start with studies in the fields of Mathematics, Physics, English, Chemistry, and various Naval subjects...
...Waesche is proud that the Coast Guard, founded in 1790 by Alexander Hamilton, is older than the U.S. Navy (which took it over from the Treasury Department in June 1941). He takes pride in the Coast Guard motto (Semper Paratus-always ready). But the front cover of his new booklet, Deeds of Valor from the Annals of the Coast Guard, displays a more familiar Coast Guard maxim: "You have to go out but you don't have to come back...