Word: commands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...command of the Eighth Field Artillery at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Col. Bishop is a West Pointer (1897). During the World War he commanded the 159th Field Artillery Brigade, the Third Field Artillery Brigade. He has lived with guns and caissons and horses and the smell of black powder during his whole military career...
...Lycoming to sell Stinson motors at absolute factory cost, a thing Lycoming can well afford because its aviation motor business is a small part of its whole. Stinson thus can charge so much less for its finished planes. This it did during last week. For competitive reasons others, notably Command-Aire and Great Lakes, also cut prices. But most firms jigged stubbornly between high production costs and low demands. Altogether, contracts for only $3,000,000 worth of planes were written up at the show...
...rear-end outside seats for machine-gunners, built high to command a clear view of snipers...
...purposes of the Naval R. O. T. C. is to train officers, that is, leaders of men," declared Captain B. B. Wygant, U. S. N., professor of Naval Science and Tactics, in stating the value and aims of military drill yesterday. "No man can lead or command others effectively until he can command himself...
...Group drill, like team athletics, teaches self control or command over oneself while a member of the group When acting as a leader one develops in addition self confidence, initiative, and a sense of responsibility. Moreover such drill improves posture, teaches alertness, and inoculates respect for authority...