Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...army of the future will move on caterpillar treads, De Gaulle wrote in 1934. The Maginot Line is limited in depth and leaves northern France exposed, he warned. The defensive psychology of the Maginot Line "will defeat France." As to the vaunted French morale, "neither bravery nor skill can any longer achieve anything except as functions of equipment." Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain laughed off the book as "witticisms." General Weygand called it "evil." The Germans learned from...
...Into four major air commands went four new commanders, all younger than their predecessors. All have reputations for energy, skill in the air, sound sense. Youngest is 49-year-old Brigadier General William O. Ryan, a pursuit commander who was assigned to the Fourth Air Force (Riverside. Calif.). To the Army's youngest major general. 51-year-old Lewis Hyde Brereton (one of the few Army men whose careers began in the Navy) goes command of the Third Air Force at Tampa, Fla. To succeed Major General James E. Chaney, who is watching World War II in Great Britain...
...statistics to show that the Government must now furnish 70% of the power to make up the aluminum shortage. After adding that the U.S. will be practically the sole purchaser, he said: "Under such conditions there is no basis for large profits to private interests. The furnishing of management skill and services is all there is left. There is a question whether, at least as to one or more plants, the Government should not hire the necessary personnel on a salaried basis...
Hull down in Pacific brine, squat, ugly U.S. freighters were last week carrying the second A.E.F.-men and materials for action in the Far East. Hundreds of young U.S. volunteers were en route to fight in China's skies (TIME, June 23). Advisers were going; men of every skill and walk of life were setting out, some for freedom's sake, some for adventure...
Each workman is taught a slightly higher skill right on the job. Thus by easy stages unskilled workmen become semiskilled, semiskilled become skilled-and they produce while they learn. To help him run this system (called upgrading) Dr. Reeves drafted as assistants Socony Vacuum's Industrial Relations Manager Channing R. Dooley and Western Electric's Walter Dietz...