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This kind of thing, decided COMINCH Admiral Ernest J. King last week, has got to stop. By his order, the number of typewriters, mimeograph and multigraph machines throughout the Navy's operating forces will be cut 50%. By this simple expedient, the Admiral believes, men afloat will have more time to fight, or get ready for fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy And Civilian Defense - King's Way | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...Chief of Staff (for the fleet). Rear Admiral Russell Willson, to take more work off his hands. Navymen knew that "Rey" King did not give a Bosun's curse for old Navy tradition. If any ranker in the Navy could make them pop, things would now pop. And COMINCH King (who changed the abbreviation from CINCUS) finally had the popper all to himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy And Civilian Defense - NAVY: Sundownet's Sunrise | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

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