Word: scouting
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...Scout who goes ahead, trial balloon in hand, prowling the unexplored bushes of public opinion, whipping up sentiment pro or con whatever the President has decided the U.S. should be for or against. He is the Whipping Boy who takes the blame whenever anything goes wrong. He is the New Deal's Janitor, who cleans out the goboons and sweeps up the floor (usually using some victim as the broom). He captains the Purity Squad that keeps his colleagues honest. He is the Public Executioner, the Court Poisoner and the Bouncer. In short, if there is on the docket...
...girl might marry, removed the veils from the womenfolk and bettered their status in life, ran the royal Grocery Boy out of the land, fostered education, set up schools and colleges, tore down slums, erected beautiful buildings, updated agriculture, improved medical service and public health, founded Boy and Girl Scout movements, reconstructed roads and fomented trade and industry with all his being. His greatest accomplishment (next to getting Persia up on its feet) was the 870-mile railroad, which took eleven years to build, cost $160,000,000 and runs from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian...
Though competitors, three truck manufacturers (White, Diamond T, Autocar) set up a joint purchasing committee to speed their work on 9,347 standardized Army trucks and scout cars. The committee first got subcontractors tooled up without duplicating facilities, now places bulk orders for all materials...
Rolling Out. The U.S. Army had about 500 tanks in service a year ago, now has some 1,500. Its immediate aim (in addition to production-for-Britain): some 880 medium tanks, 2,300 light tanks, 1,096 scout cars for eight armored divisions (plus equipment for 15 separate tank battalions, equal to about five more divisions...
Later in the week soldiers joined Marines in a landing party of 1,500, this time took along light artillery. Landing with tanks and scout cars will come later. Before Task Force 18 can call itself completely trained, it will have to work with aircraft from carriers. For storming a beach head is the toughest operation in the soldier's book, and even cocky Marines know that against the modern, weapons of World War II it is no job to be run off without weeks and months of training...