Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside of a choice vocabulary, a wartime course on the intricacies of slit-trench excavation bears little fruit for the veteran studying English at Harvard. College men bowed gracefully to military instruction and promptly forgot it. But now, as civilian students, ex-G.I.'s find that wartime studies loom huge on their credit sheets with decimal figures that pare college time to the bone. The Dean's office must step high to escape the hoard of snapping students with unwanted, but usually irrevocable service credits...
Most of these men graft to live, and there is no possible way to stop this sort of graft until all Government employees, military and civilian, receive a living wage. But raising of Government salaries will increase the inflation, inflation will raise the cost of living, the rising cost of living will quickly absorb the raises in salaries, graft will start again-nobody will be better off. How can China break this vicious circle...
...world he becomes a heartless butcher, a quick target for civilian public opinion, a perfect scapegoat for the Pentagon's brass hats, easy prey for congressional busybodies making overseas inspection tours. No pleas, no threats will budge Dennis: he is as adamantine of mind as he is agonized of soul. Eventually he is relieved of his command. But at the very end, his successor is won over to his policy...
Color was added to the practice by the presence of civilian-clothed Ed Davis and Ned Dewey, who held down the tackle slots on last year's Harlow eleven...
...baby, Globe Aircraft Corp. grew fast. In three war years it built $18.5 million worth of trainer planes for the Army. Its first plant was a converted barn near Fort Worth. At war's end, Globe felt strong enough to venture into the peacetime market with a small civilian plane, the Swift. It floated a $1.5 million stock issue, at $10 a share, to help finance it. Nine months ago, when the small-plane market hit stormy weather. Globe crashed...