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Under the program worked out by this committee, a student would begin ROTC training with his sophomore year. He would take the summer drill between his sophomore and junior years...
...still can't go down in the elevator and step out on the intake and look up without being inspired." M-K introduced bulldozers to its partners at Hoover, wound up using 60 huge monsters. There, too, M-K showed off a new tunnel-driving technique using drill jumbos, great scaffolds on which men with 40 drills could hammer away at the same time, thus cutting costs drastically. Hoover was finished in five years, and MK's share of the $10.4 million profit was about...
...ARMY runs a vast program (141,600 students in 250 colleges, 1,500 officer-instructors) at a cost of $22 million a year. Required for a second lieutenant's commission: the full four-year course (480 hours) plus one summer training period. The course includes close-order drill and lectures (weapons familiarization, small-unit tactics, Army logistics and administration), gives 40 hours to military history and current U.S. military problems. Hard put to assimilate this year's crop of 15,200 R.O.T.C. graduates, the Army is asking Congress to approve a 8,700-man boost in officer strength...
...took over Reed in 1925 when it had some 80 workers and $1,000,000 in assets. He built the company into the world's second largest oil-tool concern (first: Hughes Tool Co.), with assets of $24 million and worldwide markets for its rock bits, rotary joints, drill collars and coring equipment. R. G. Hamaker, formerly vice president for sales, took over as new president...
College and Radcliffe students may be fined $500 and sent to jail for six months if they again neglect a Cambridge air raid drill the way they did Saturday, city civil defense director Edmund M. Burke declared last night...