Word: recruits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plans are also being made to tighten Air Force discipline and to recruit personable British entertainers to supplement the well-meaning but uninspiring professors who up to now have borne the burden of instructing the Americans in the ways of the British...
...League admissions officers can no longer sit back and wait for the top students throughout the country to file applications. Today they must wage an active competition, they must sell their product and recruit interested...
John Clarke Whitaker, 61, likes to boast that he joined R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. at the same time as another recruit: "Old Joe," the circus camel for whom Founder Reynolds named his cigarettes. Just out of the University of North Carolina, Whitaker started as a cigarette-machine inspector in 1913, the year Camels were put on the market. He worked up through manufacturing and personnel departments to a vice-presidency in 1937. Even when he became president in 1948, he never forgot that he started out in overalls, and he kept his door wide open so that...
...school," Tatum continued, "that has a football team will send alumni out to recruit players. But up there, they have to send alumni out to find men because they can't say 'athletic scholarship,' and down here we can send coaches out to get players. We see to it that we wind up with two good guards and a big line, in addition to a good backfield. But alumni send in flashy backs and big ends, mostly, for the football team. So in the end, we wind up with a better balanced, more solid team. That's the only difference...
...Fort Sam Houston and Camp Cooke, Calif., Reed kept his readers Posted on the daily life of a recruit by scrawling out his column in longhand at night or spending 20? to use the service club typewriter. "You'd be surprised how firma the terra is when you hit it suddenly, while running at full steam and carrying a lot of equipment . . . The cardinal rule brought to bear upon the soldier in the field is as follows: 'If you can't eat it, drink it, or carry it with you, bury it.' This is known...