Word: personnel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forces to degenerate into merely nominal fighting units. General Pershing's warnings have gone unheeded before a penurious or misguided Congress. And in the Navy, which is perhaps even more important for all emergencies, chasers and destroyers are allowed to disintegrate at their piers through lack of funds and personnel, and both the aeroplane and submarine service are undersize. Perhaps the national lethargy is temporary; it is to be hoped that it is brief, for to bring the navy up to its allowed quota--beyond a doubt a necessity--will soon involve enormous expense...
...History and Personnel. For centuries the Sistine Choir of the Vatican represented the most august development of music, reaching its greatest glory in the medieval days of the unaccompanied chorus...
...strong as it should be. Thirteen of eighteen battleships need modernizing. Twenty scout cruisers are necessary to maintain the treaty ration in this weapon as compared to Japan, and even more as compared to Great Britain. The United States id deficient in cruise submarines. The number of enlisted personnel is low. In many ways it is under the treaty strength...
Industry. Factories rebuilt or repaired, 7,771, of which all are working. Personnel employed is 70.9% of the pre-War number...
...coaching without seriously interfering with their work The track season is on during fall, winter, and spring, and it is practically impossible for business men to participate regularly in coaching work during the year. In such a system, also, a large amount of shifting necessarily takes place in the personnel of the staff and this is likely to interfere seriously with coaching methods...