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Slow Torture. Now a lieutenant colonel, Abbott Harrington Burns was only a month away from a construction clerk's job with an Arizona telephone company when he was assigned to a Fire Direction Center team at Fort Sill, Okla., in mid-November 1940. In self-defense against slow torture from intricate mathematics, Harry Burns one night experimented with a homemade paper slide rule. Most officers were unimpressed. But one major, George V. Keyser (now a brigadier commanding the 74th Field Artillery in Mississippi), saw the potentialities of Burns's Graphical Firing Table...
...citizens got Ration Book No. 3 by simply dipping into the mailbox. For Ration Books 1 & 2 they had had to wait in line and fill out questionnaires. The slick new red-tape-slashing scheme had gotten its inventor, Philip Holzer, 24-year-old OPA clerk (TIME, May 3) a temporary draft deferment and had given the U.S. Post Office its biggest delivery...
Bespectacled Clerk Holzer, who broke through OPA's you-can't-do-that rules to put over the mailing scheme, was scheduled for induction last May. But Holzer knew his own plan so much better than his superiors that OPAdministrator Prentiss Brown got his induction stayed. Fortnight ago the crucial stage of the mailing safely past, Good Bureaucrat Holzer reported to Fort Myer, Va., was assigned to the Navy as an apprentice seaman in the Seabees. Given the Navy's usual week furlough before going on active duty, Clerk Holzer turned up at the New York...
Nomenclature. In Tampa, a worker registering with a clerk finally persuaded her that his last name was really First, his first name Last. He worked on ships; his middle name was Gale...
Democracy has been kind to Joseph Patrick Ryan. He quit school at 12, worked as stock boy, clerk, streetcar conductor, as a longshoreman at $18 for a six-day week. Now, at 59, as president of the A. F. of L. International Longshoremen's Association, he makes $20,000 a year...