Word: skeletonization
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...Skeleton Units...
Once this preliminary group of semitrained men has been polished up, new men between the ages of 21 and probably 31 will be drafted in increments of 400,000 called up about three months apart. These new recruits will be apportioned out to fill spaces in "skeleton" units officered by the Army, National Guard, and R. O. T. C. members previously referred to When the new men have been thoroughly trained, they will direct new increments of recruits, and so on, in a gradually expanding net built around the principle of assigning skilled officers to unskilled...
...American Export had got CAA per mission to go into the U. S. transatlantic air trade, hitherto the monopoly of vast, pioneering Pan American Airways. For more than a year the upstart air line (TIME, April 29) had lazed along, thinking up tasks for its skeleton staff: daily weather maps for its meteorologists to chart, constant checking and rechecking of its only plane - a Consolidated 28, which had already made some experimental hops to Europe. Now it could stop the make-believe...
...most popular educational shows at the New York World's Fair is the Medicine & Public Health exhibit. In the shadowy Hall of Man stand countless glorifications of the human body-a swaying four-foot ear, a talking skeleton, a mechanical biceps, a huge plaster brain studded with push buttons. Through the Hall echoes the muffled beat of an invisible, mechanical heart...
...Telefonica, International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.'s 17-story skyscraper, tallest building in Madrid. Bruised but unbowed by some 186 shells which struck it during the two-and-a-half-year siege, the big steel and reinforced concrete structure served as a home for I. T. & T.'s skeleton staff and their families, occasionally as a bomb shelter for harassed Loyalists. Even heavy bombardments failed to faze its automatic dial system...