Word: reasonsable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reasons given for this depletion of commissioned Navy personnel: disappointingly poor and unequal pay, a bad promotion system. After the strenuous four years of instruction at Annapolis, an ensign receives $1,500 a year, $699 allowances, or about the pay of a District of Columbia policeman. After seven years in...
Money and service jealousy were at the root of the dispute. The Army, charging encroachment on its aerial sphere of coast defense, objected to the Navy's use of Federal funds to build land planes and operate them from land bases. The Navy insisted that, for tactical reasons, it needed...
There are U. S. ophthalmologists sufficiently skilled to write such prescriptions. But none, so far as could be learned last week, owns a complete set of 39 test lenses (cost $25 a lens); and most consider contact glasses foolish, unnecessary. Dr. Heine's customers have been people with athletic...
Old as the Kansas City Star itself is its reputation for taboos. Its late great founder William Rockhill Nelson 50 years ago kept a list of persons who must not be mentioned in the Star's columns. Moreover, Colonel Nelson being portly, no Star cartoonist dared caricature a fat...
Perhaps because of its gravity, this question attracted most public interest: You are the head of an expedition which has come to grief in the desert. There is enough food and water left to enable three people to get to the nearest outpost of civilization. The rest must perish. Your...