Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your article "End of the Road" [TIME, Oct. 21] your reference to General Stilwell "setting the pace with a brisk 105 steps to the minute" seems quite strange to one subject to Army drill regulations. According to Field Manual 22-5 (Feb. 1946), quick time-the normal cadence of a group marching-is 120 steps per minute. This is surely not a brisk gait. Did TIME make a mistake as to "105 steps to the minute...
Shpihun had weighed it all very carefully. It was true that Canada had treated him well. Poor on arrival, he had been fed and housed by relief money when he could not get any of the limited manual labor he could do. Later he had been able to marry, raise four healthy children. For the last six years, Shpihun had worked steadily, earned $160 a month in a shipyard. His teen-age daughter Mary and son Bill had steady jobs also with the Canadian National Railways. They had plenty to eat and a cozy home, had even saved some money...
Then Mary got married, and set up school in 1904 in Daytona Beach, Fla. "on $1.50 and faith." Her first pupils were five little girls and her son. They used charcoal for pencils, mashed elderberries to make ink. The curriculum included manual training; her pupils repaired junk-pile furniture so they would have something...
...late famed U.S. builder, Hugh Cooper. Two of them had studied in the U.S. Their assistants, however, are inexperienced young engineers. Qualified foremen are rare and 40% of the labor force is made up of inefficient peasant girls, many of whom are prematurely aged by the hard manual work...
...Diman Vocational School opened its doors in Fall River, Mass., the big mill town where Diman's father had been a minister. Backed by Unionist John Golden, the school trained boys of 14 to 16 (too old for grammar school, too young for the mills) in manual trades. Today Diman Vocational is part of the Fall River public-school system...