Word: quickers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Submariners jokingly point to the 50% extra pay as their reason for volunteering. But they don't do what they do for money. Pride in their hard service is a big factor. So is plain patriotism-the subs promise quick action. Quicker command for young officers, quicker advancement for enlisted men, are other reasons...
...huge Rhinebeck estate where he spent an occasional weekend, he wrote: "If I had one tenth what those people have, I'd be a great man ten years quicker." He still felt anguish at being in his mother's debt; he hoped to repay her and assert his superiority by the little boy's revenge of becoming famous. "I shall be great -if I do not die too soon - and you will be known as my mother." During a 1924 trip through Europe he pleaded: "Please, if you are able, stand by me a little longer...
...knot C-type freighters. But there are two compelling reasons for sticking to the Liberty program: 1) the Liberty is far easier to build, and as Henry Kaiser and many another shipbuilder has shown, can be mass-produced; 2) the Liberty takes an old-fashioned reciprocating engine, easier and quicker to produce than the delicate high-speed turbines that must go into destroyers and some escort vessels. Geared turbines are at the moment more precious to the U.S. Navy than diamonds...
...generals whose job it is to train astronomical numbers of young men to fly delicate complex machines thought they might have hit upon a way to save some of the young men from dying early, some of the machines from being smashed. Hard-pressed to turn out more pilots quicker,* the Flying Command scheme is simple: teach the teachers. Throughout his huge, 56-station Southeast Training Command, Major General Ralph Royce has set up Advisory Training Boards (formerly called Flying Evaluation Boards) to comb over the instructors, re-educate them if necessary...
...exist if it were not itself isolated from reason. . . . [Schroeder] was still making isolationist speeches just before last week's election. Such a stand . . . makes the suggestion of his name an insult to sound Republicanism. ... If the party wished to commit suicide it could hardly do a quicker or more effective job than by placing a Schroeder in command...