Word: nel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World's Fair. He worked on three other roads before he climbed aboard the Cotton Belt in 1916 as assistant to the president. In World War I he took time out to run the railroad yards at Brest and St. Nazaire as a lieutenant colo- nel. Back at the Cotton Belt, hardworking Railroader Green, who has a rare taste for mathematics, could soon recite the Cotton Belt's revenue figures, for any month or year, down to the last decimal. Green, who became chief executive in 1946, still works a six-day week. (For fun, he does exercises...
...Target, No Need. There were main and secondary problems of person nel, training, procurement. Compared to the problems of peace, the problems of war were simple. How big a fleet? There was no yardstick, such as a comparable foreign navy, by which to determine a peacetime U.S. Navy's size. There was no comparable foreign navy. There was no specific target. There was no apparent, imminent need...
...Charlotte Evac is a desperately efficient place these days, but its person nel still finds time for a little fun. Right now on the ground outside the surgical tent are two neat patches outlined in white pebbles and decorated with a heart-&-arrows design that says: "Lieut. Ferry man, Miss Guyett, Ward...