Word: retrained
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Secretary Patterson won the D.S.C. as a company commander in the 77th (Statue of Liberty) Division in World War I, came home to the law. In 1940 he took time off from the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals bench in Manhattan, went to Plattsburg to retrain for the new war he saw coming. One afternoon, while emptying garbage cans with a KP detail, he got his summons from Stimson...
Before aluminum can be used in place of other materials, in such articles as refrigerators, retooling, new designs, retrain ing of workers, etc., will be necessary which will take time. Also, virgin aluminum is still two to three times as costly as steel. This difficulty may not be serious if second-grade aluminum from scrap -good enough for many common articles -is available at a low price...
Mechanics. The mechanics of transition could not be accomplished by a snap of the fingers. The War Department ordered all theater commanders to retrain noncombat personnel in a tough, twelve-week course. Conversely, rear-area units raided of their physically fit were allowed to be temporarily over strength so that combat veterans, taking over, could be trained for their new jobs...
With an enrollment of 110 business and professional men, the first of the new courses designed to retrain executives for positions in war industry opened yesterday at the Business School...