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...test consists of squat jumps, pushups, situps, pullups, a 100 yard "pick-a-back" run, "burpees," and a 300 yard spring. One hundred per cent will be given for 73 or more squat jumps, 85 situps, 18 pullups, 43 pushups, 13.75 "burpees," an 18 second speed in the hundred "pick-a-back," and 35 seconds or less in the 300 yard...
Energetically directed by Coach Norm Fradd, who seems to be a concentrated package of energy, the students went through push-ups, squat jumps, the Burpee test, and a variety of other sweat-producers. Their scores were recorded by their mates, and the hardy lads with the strong wind were temporarily sifted from the panting fellows believed to be in need of what Coach Fradd described as "heavy calisthenics...
Russians used them to whip artillery to the Stalingrad front to crush Nazi tank attacks. British used them to scout, fight and pursue Rommel 2,000 miles. U.S. troops had one waiting for President Roosevelt at Casablanca. Everywhere the tough, square, squat jeeps are bouncing the backsides of the United Nations. Potentates and savages ride jeeps; soldiers regard them fondly, pat their rugged sides. But the fondest pats of all come from Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., foster parent of the jeep. To Willys the jeep is a plug-ugly duckling who laid a golden...
...squat little guns on either side of the quarter-deck sent TNT-laden depth charges hurtling into the dark sea. Then another burst, and another. The ship's stern bucked like a blooded stallion. From the sea came a lightning flash and muffled thunder, then the water fountained. The next and the next charges were deeper, making the sea boil and rumble...
Until war's end, the Ford burden must inevitably fall upon the two most trusted men in the empire - tall, hawk-nosed Charles E. Sorensen, vice president, and squat, nail-hard Harry Bennett. Sorensen, Danish-born, came to the company in 1904, has heard all the dreams of Henry and Edsel, and translated them into cars off the production line, planes winging from Willow Run. Bennett is no production man. Upon his pugilist's shoulders has rested the Atlantean task of protecting the empire from anything which Henry Ford wants it protected from. Hired to guard the Rouge...