Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flying is no picnic. Members train hard. Of 230 curricular hours, 80 go into military discipline and drill, 150 into meteorology, navigation, crash procedure, flight missions. Men on active duty get only plane-operation expenses and sustenance, little or no compensation if they damage their ships. But they are stubborn; they want to fly and they...
First, the bad weather, then the several postponements, and finally yesterday's Mil Sci drill made the meet a very haphazard affair. Drawing a picture of the team's future was well-nigh hopeless...
...Fort Meade private (Frederick Gaither) came on the air with his partner, a Garand rifle named "Stinky," and discussed its make-up and accomplishments with Sportscaster Bill Stern. This was an easygoing, informative skit, especially for anyone unaware that U.S. soldiers now carry armor-piercing rifle ammunition to drill through the belly of enemy tanks...
...became superintendent of schools five years ago (having been a teacher, principal, State superintendent), he found his school system full of Progressive Educators. He not only encouraged their experiments but thought up a few himself. But since the war Superintendent Kersey has restrained his Progressives, demanded more discipline and drill in the three Rs. Says he: "We're not depriving kids of their freedom when we demand that they know how to find ½ of ⅜. . . . A good part of this war depends on competency in computation...
...business in the '90s. In no time at all he made a killing in West Virginia oil, discovered the then huge Crawford Field in Illinois, lost most of his cash in Oklahoma mud. Then he whipped off again, struck the fabulous Caddo pool in Louisiana, moved on to drill in Mexico, Venezuela, Canada, Europe. Most spectacular was his discovery of the great Texas Yates pool, only 16 years ago. Although he owns about one-third of the $13,000,000 Plymouth Oil Co., has a large interest in tens of other companies, he always stayed an independent, was rarely...