Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major overhauls, roadbeds are rough and many are dangerous. Yet WPB has consistently cut down the allocation of materials the railroads have set as their minimum needs. Thus the rails' plea for 2.1 million tons of new rail in 1943 was slashed to 1.5. Result: derailments are dangerously frequent. Anticipating the 15% increase in freight ton-miles in 1943, the carriers begged for at least 80,000 new freight cars, finally got less than 28,000. Total expenditures for maintenance this year will be $200 million less than the railroads wanted to spend...
...Kretschmer's blunt boo gains force from his experience with eleven castrated patients who had some prostatic tissue cut out besides: "Three of the patients are dead [after] five, eight and eleven months; one patient is bedridden, requiring frequent doses of morphine; three patients have pain; one patient had painful urination and attacks of hematuria [bloody urine]; only three say they are improved after eleven, seven and three months respectively." (Procastration doctors say that Dr. Kretschmer is wrong to discount the initial improvement in his patients, even if it is short-lived...
Appointed on a short term basis in keeping with the new policy of frequent rotation, Paul F. Perkins, Jr. '45 NROTC, today assumes the duties of Regimental Commander to the Navy V-12 Unit. Named to assist him as Sub-Commander and Adjutant are John Shillito, Jr. and Herbert S. Allen, both Naval ROTC seniors...
Company and platoon posts increase the total number of assignments to 45, thereby employing almost all of the top class at the same time. Rotation of positions among these men will be frequent, according to the announcement made Tuesday by Lt. Comdr. Harvey N. Marshall, USN (Ret.), Drill Officer of the Naval Science staff...
...Port Moresby, on creaky linotypes and antiquated flat-bed presses. A month ago a branch was set up at Dobadura, near Oro Bay. Copies are distributed by jeep and mail where feasible, are dropped from planes to forward troops and isolated outposts. Printing and distribution troubles are tremendous and frequent...