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...practical purposes U.M.T., as it was being considered, was not a feeder system anyone could depend on. Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey wanted, instead, six months' basic training followed by two solid years in the ranks. This would be U.M.S. (Universal Military Service), not U.M.T. It also had the backing of Marine Reserve Brigadier General Melvin Maas, ex-Congressman from Minnesota, who last week was named to a Pentagon committee to restudy the whole reserve problem. "It will be expensive as hell," Maas observed. "But we ought to be able to afford it if the Russians...
...group of airline men were scrambling to get into the same cab. One of them was Eastern Air Lines' Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. Another was Delta Air Lines' President C. E. Woolman, whose web of routes from Charleston, S.C. to Fort Worth had long acted as feeder lines into Eastern Air Lines' lucrative routes from Florida to New York and New England. Would Woolman mind letting Eddie sit on his lap for a short ride? Cracked Woolman: "Well, Eddie, I've been helping support you for years, so I might as well do it some more...
...added a 5?-an-hour boost for all hands and an escalator clause guaranteeing a 1? wage boost with every one-point rise in the cost of living. Still Kennedy and Hughes said no. To show they meant business, they ordered a token strike in three terminals and two feeder railroads. Last week, apparently in a more amenable mood, they promised Steelman that they would not extend the token strikes. But 45 minutes later, they gave the signal for a nationwide railroad strike to begin this week...
Plissner scored 17 goals, highest total on the team. Feeder Hudner counted 15 times, but assisted on 24 other tallies...
...speedy attack man was one of the key men on this year's squad which compiled a six, five, one record. Hudner consistently out-maneuvered the opposition's defense from his feeder position...