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...platoon: "I can teach you how to fight. Listen to Smith read TIME as you march and you'll know why you're fighting." Wrote Rookie Smith: "Our platoon now boasts that it is the only one that can march and simultaneously study the enemy firsthand, via TIME...
...Keller's staff man, Colbert would finish one job and say: "What next, Mr. Keller?'; Keller sent him into the plants to handle production problems firsthand, to night school to learn how to read a blueprint and run a lathe. Says Colbert: "I decided that this was much more to the cut of my jib than practicing...
...Hawaiian Pineapple's President Henry Arthur White, who for the past four years has had his star employees explain the workings of Hawaiian Pineapple to their fellow workers (in Chinese, Japanese and English). This year he began flying his employees around the islands to see the different operations firsthand (TIME, April 24). The results were so successful that he decided to bring the employees to the mainland to tell the stockholders what they had learned...
Since December, District Attorney Miles McDonald had been plugging a Brooklyn grand jury in on some of the hottest party lines of big-time New York gambling. From his wire-tap leads and blitz raids, McDonald served up firsthand evidence that New York City cops had been taking a million dollars a year in bribes from one Brooklyn bookie alone...
...Airlines has dropped four cities off its cargo routes. Other lines are getting by with makeshift schedules, but these will not hold up if MATS decides it needs more planes on the Pacific lift. This week, General Tunner plans to make a flying inspection of the lift, and a firsthand estimate of its future needs...