Word: crackerjacks
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...both services are still fussy about giving commissions outright to civilians, must be dead certain the man is able. Most important: he must be a crackerjack in a special trade or profession-purchasing agent, pilot, lawyer, seafarer, production boss, etc. Jacks-of-all-trade are almost always thumbed under. Even actual fighting experience counts little. Thus, of 77,443 World War I officers who asked for commissions in 1942's first three months, only 891 were called to active duty; all others got a polite brush...
...once denied the charges. Under its sky-broad Presidential decree WPB could take over the plants and put them under Government operation. This is unlikely: producing more than 30% of the entire U.S. steel supply, the two corporations are too vital to be monkeyed with by anyone but crackerjack steelmen. WPB therefore flipped the whole thing over to the Justice Department with a meek "for appropriate action." The action: suits to enjoin future violations...
...Harry Hopkins' munitions man on the United Nations High Command, General Burns had done a crackerjack job. He was a work horse in starting the infinitely complex Lend-Lease, has had a hand in distributing all military equipment to the Allies ever since. If anybody knows what and how much materiel each of the United Nations needs, General Burns is the man. He also knows the right people-which is very important in Washington...
...Steel is dishing out $15,500,000 of its own cash for new plants & equipment at Pittsburgh, Chicago and Birmingham. Besides this, the company is installing six new lines to treat black plate (i.e., thin steel plate) chemically. When lacquered by can-makers, chemically treated black plate makes a crackerjack substitute for tinplate in certain fields...
...plenty of time and likes to fly, he can -leave Cristobal via Pan Am's frequent Central American or Venezuelan flights. From an operating standpoint, Panagra's toughest problem is that it must base equipment, materials and personnel in South America (mainly Lima), has lost many a crackerjack pilot and mechanic because he would not stay away from the States...