Word: echeloning
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...style of FM 21-13 is most influenced by Reinhold Niebuhr and Pat Boone, the style of The Combat Leader's Field Guide is derived primarily from Ernest Hemingway. Consider this passage from a section on probing for mines: "Echelon men 15 to 25 M to minimize casualties." This tone of taut realism is characteristic of the book. Its author, also anonymous, gives these instructions for testing for the presence of poison gas: "Nerve agents being quick killers, make test with detectors, then have 2 or 3 men unmask for 5 min.... If no symptoms, unmask...
Both men were already members of the Central Committee's inner sanctum, the Presidium. Now, as secretaries of the committee as well, they move into the most elite echelon of the Soviet hier archy. Only four other Red leaders hold such a double position, and none is Khrushchev's likely successor. The four: Frol Kozlov, 54, who suffered a severe stroke in April; elderly Otto Kuusinen, 81; Senior Theoretician Mikhail Suslov, 60, compromised by a Stalinist past; and Khrushchev himself...
...hard-driving David Schwartz, Logan last year reached $81 million; Maurice Saltzman's Bobbie Brooks was close behind at $75.5 million. Ranged well below them but growing fast is a $20 million to $30 million tier that includes Majestic Specialties, Russ Togs and White Stag, and a third echelon that is working upward from the $10 million plateau...
...chief has never clerked in an A. & P. store, but, like most company executives, he started low and worked long (46 years) before making it into the top echelon. A graduate of New York University, he rose through the accounting side, for years worked with A. & P. Developers John and George Hartford, and still frequently invokes their names ("Mr. John" or "Mr. George"). Chairman Ehrgott's first problem at "the Tea Company," in fact, is to decide whether to move into Mr. John's hallowed office, where a sign on the wall tells him what...
...three plants abroad, and is now part of a consortium developing molybdenum deposits in Greenland. Last year Stora's sales were about $153 million, are expected to rise slightly this year. Despite its advanced age, Stora has avoided hardening of the arteries by keeping its upper echelon lean (only 16% of its staff are salaried white-collar workers v. 25% for the average Swedish firm) and its plants remarkably efficient...