Word: echeloning
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...month is "rated" by all the top officers of the company, for the purpose of deciding the size of his bonus, which is also a measure of his advancement. In theory at least, after years of such a process, a company will have a thoroughly blooded, thoroughly tested echelon of No. 2 men completely capable of taking over the top functions without disturbing the rhythm of the organization...
...last week Howard Hughes, who has had plenty of troubles with RKO and other of his business ventures (TIME, Feb. 23), was hip deep in trouble with his successful electronic company. The top echelon of men who had built up the company had quit, and the Air Force was frantically trying to keep the quarrel from slowing up the building of fighter planes. Hughes Aircraft's rise is partly the work of a onetime Ford industrial management expert named Charles ("Tex") Thornton, who became vice president and assistant general manager, and two of the nation's top electronics...
...ablest soldier-administrators; of arthritis and complications from a broken leg; in Twyford, England. Four times decorated in World War I, Mason MacFarlane headed British intelligence in France when World War II began. After the 1940 German breakthrough in Belgium, he mustered a hodgepodge "Mac Force" of rear-echelon troops and led a fighting retreat to Dunkirk. In 1944 as chief of the Allied Control Commission in liberated Italy, he smoothly directed the cleanup of Fascist officials. At war's end Laborite "Mason Mac" was elected to' Parliament...
...prospect of death he learned to ac cept, and he seldom talked about it. But he could gripe about the hardships. Each echelon claimed that the men to the rear were "fat" with luxuries. The man on the line envied the man at battalion because he usually slept on a cot and lived in a tent and had three hot meals a day. Battalion thought regiment "had it made" because there the men rode around in jeeps. The soldier assigned to regiment wished he was farther back at division, where it was safer, where there were showers, Korean houseboys...
Next day the pilots of the 306th began to show the colonel up. Of the 15 planes in the second echelon, one made the crossing in 5 hr. 37 min., and two more did it in 5 hr. 36 min., both shaving McCoy's April record. The final echelon, which roared into Fairford on the third day, did better still. One plane made the run in 5 hr. 30 min., another in 5 hr. 29 min. In the last of the wing's 45 planes came one of McCoy's squadron commanders, Lieut. Colonel Benny Klose...