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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is nothing to indicate that the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts is contemplating the quiz program method of teaching disbursing. But if such a step is ever considered the School now has a least the nucleus of an SOA "Quiz-Kid" gang. In one particular Junior class-and probably to a lesser extent in the other four-there is a group of officer who can ask the most ingenious questions. It sometimes looks as though they know the answers and are just trying in find out if the instructor does or not. He generally refuses to be baited...
Administering the program is the Training Division of the Bureau of Naval Personnel. The Bureau, through Commander Charles Wesley Shilling, M.C., U.S.N., a submarine doctor since the early days of escape training, set up the machinery to select the right men for the new ships, and to pick the best men for such special tasks as lookout duty...
Considine got permission from the Air Forces Public Relations Bureau to talk to Lawson, took the train to Washington. There he met a 25 -year-old flyer who had worked his way through Los Angeles Junior College, going to school in the day, working in the Douglas factory at night and sleeping in the school library between classes. An unselfconscious individual, untroubled by his missing leg, Captain Lawson had been trying to get his story on paper, hammering away doggedly but ineffectually. He needed to get his story told. His wife (he had married the Junior College librarian) had just...
...More coffee (stocks on hand rose to 3,000,000 bags, tripling the supply five months ago; the Pan-American Coffee Bureau recommended cutting the ration period for one stamp from three to two weeks, predicted it would soon be slashed to a week...
...message. The President was not only vetoing a bill; he was confidently, almost scornfully, lashing Congress. Some passages sounded almost like the old days of the fighting New Deal. Swanson's mellifluous voice accented the tough phrases (reputedly written by Fred Vinson Prentiss Brown and the Budget Bureau): "A bill to hamstring the Commodity Credit Corp. . . . would serve only to set the soldier, the worker and the unorganized consumer at war with the farmer . . . these unorganized millions must not become the forgotten men and women of our war economy...