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...Although two black brothers from Ohio, Moses "Fleet" Walker and Welday Walker, played briefly for Toledo of the then major American Association in 1884, blacks were subsequently barred from playing big-league ball for the next 63 years. Branch Rickey, the most eloquent of baseball men, brought Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Rickey and the Dodgers' captain, Pee Wee Reese, lent magnificent support to Robinson, the pioneer. Others did not. Several Dodgers demanded to be traded, rather than play on a fine team beside a black...
REMEDY Boeing redesigned and is in the process of refitting the rudder-control systems on the 1,300 737s in its U.S. fleet...
While the Pentagon has been using drones as flying spies for years, it was less than 18 months ago that Jumper--then running the Air Force's Air Combat Command--first realized that his growing fleet of unmanned aircraft represented a missed opportunity. "It just clicked: that if we could put a small weapon on this thing, we could do the entire cycle--find a target, kill it and assess it--from the same vehicle," the Vietnam War pilot recalls. Jumper didn't actually engineer the missile-firing drone, but he oversaw and championed its development. Even more important...
Again, the conventional wisdom is wrong. As I see it, the core competency of a consulting firm or an investment bank isn’t any of these low value, commodity services that your average junior loan officer at Fleet Bank could do in his sleep. The real value these companies bring to the world and to their shareholders is their unmatched skill at recruiting fresh-faced young students from the Ivy League. Those lavish dinners with the managing directors, those Morgan Stanley-emblazoned squeeze balls and those endless series of first round, second round, supplemental, on-site, off-site...
...June 1942, seven months had passed since Pearl Harbor, and still no news from the Atlantic or Pacific theaters had fundamentally lifted our spirits or given us hope for a quick and decisive victory. The Japanese had destroyed much of our Pacific fleet, Jimmy Doolittle had inflicted only psychological damage during his pilots' "30 seconds over Tokyo" and General MacArthur was forced to retreat from the Philippines...