Word: manual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Students about to enter the armed services and anxious to get a headstart with their preliminary training may meet for about an hour three times a week to learn the manual of arms under the tutelage of advanced students in the Quartermaster Corps, Naval Science, and Military Science...
From Northwest lumber camps came threats of shutdowns unless lumberjacks get more red meat. But if OPA made an exception, it might have to do the same for other manual laborers...
Feet on the Ground. Kelly, who is now a Navy lieutenant commander, decided to teach on the ground a good deal of what had been taught in the air. Some 60 maneuver sheets were developed to give the essentials of each maneuver in simple, nontechnical language. Instructors got a manual which set forth the best teaching vocabulary. Last week the Navy was making good use of an adaptation of the manual, U.S. Navy Patter. Says Patter...
Although little of this idea remains applicable to local scafaring men, authentic sources indicate that the typical NSCS weekend probably includes at least scraping the deck at the Statler, conducting "sociological" tours to New York, or remaining at home delving into the Manual. 'Tis significant, though, that a considerable number of men lenderedence to the idea that a minor emphasis is placed...
Besides these, there are several female stock room clerks and messengers, two or three blueprint and photography assistants, four manual shop helpers, one metal plating and one engraving machine operator, and one salvager, for dismantling experimental models...