Word: regularization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recently MOT has developed a series of special "Forum Edition" films for study and discussion in the nation's clubs and classrooms. (In three months more than 1,700 schools subscribed for a year of these films.) And one of its regular releases was shown in war plants all over the country to build the morale of industrial workers. (Said the Aero Products Division of General Motors after showing this film : "Absenteeism took a sharp decline sharp decline - and has never gone back to the old figures.") In its early days MOT touched on as many as six topics...
After 49 innings of pitching, Wallace finally gave way in the eighth and last inning to Lefty Knowles, regular B team hurler. With Harvard in the lead and the game almost over, Coach Stahl yanked both his pitcher and first baseman, Jim Fava, to give Knowles and Ken Crumrine Varsity experience. Wallace, in the seven innings that he pitched, was in form comparable to his 14-inning whitewashing of the Boston Coast Guard. Throttling the visitors with only four hits, he struck out eight, two with runners on first and third in the sixth. Knowles, pitching his first Varsity game...
...precedent of appointing professional Army & Navy officers as Presidential aides was broken. President Truman had already replaced Colonel Richard Park Jr. of the regular Army with Colonel Harry H. Vaughan, emergency officer and World War I comrade of Captain Harry S. Truman, Battery D, 129th Field Artillery. Last week the President announced that his new Naval aide (replacing Vice Admiral Wilson Brown) was Captain James K. Vardaman...
Western Europe. Very limited quantities of emergency food supplies (flour, coffee, chocolate, sugar, salt, etc.) have been shipped into France, Belgium and The Netherlands. But since all three of these nations are "paying" countries in the UNRRA pool, they will receive no regular UNRRA supplies. Some 60 UNRRA teams of 13 workers each are now in Western Europe, helping to repatriate foreign workers. UNRRA does not feed the displaced persons (the U.S. Army does that...
...would hesitate to give the order "Fall Out" because of the three or four irrepressibles who obeyed by falling flat on their faces. One day an ex-vaudevillian was assigned to calisthenic drill. "Inhale!" he shouted. The men inhaled. "Outhale!" They outhaled. "Sidehale!" "What the hell is that?" a regular corporal demanded. "A new breathing method. Field Manual 36-B, with Kreplach...