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...received any, but pitched right in at whatever was to be done. He stood watch with me and navigated, conned the ship and trained gun crews. The sharpest memories I have are the time he was shoehorned into the forward magazine on a blistering hot day to help stow some ammunition we were receiving aboard, and the time he borrowed my white shoes and a pair of socks so he could go ashore in Norfolk. I remember how he was stripped to the waist in the first instance, sweat pouring off him, and swearing heartily at the vagaries of putting...
...could be achieved by shipping the trucks "CKD" (completely knocked down) instead of to the Army's present specifications, which insist that the trucks be practically ready to roll. Boxes containing CKD vehicles are smaller and more tightly filled than those needed for assembled units. Furthermore, smaller packages stow to better advantage in hold or 'tween decks. Such a fourfold flow of trucks is no pipe dream. Detroit motormakers regularly shipped CKD to Australia before the war; on Lend-Lease shipments, they are doing it now. Springs are compressed, wheels and fenders nested, frames squeezed and stacked. Each...
...Play Hob. Father John has still another bag in which to stow unorganized workers, and another relative to hold the bag: loyal Brother Denny, whose United Construction Workers union has invaded A.F. of L.'s building trades, has grabbed everybody it could lay its hands on. How many new C.I.O. members are under the Lewis flag is a military secret buried deep in Lewis' files. But there are enough to play hob with C.I.O. harmony, enough to start a dozen bitter labor jurisdictional wars...
...loading a ship, as in packing a trunk, the heaviest cargo is usually put in the bottom. But wartime cargoes are loaded not by common sense but by code. Washington supplies a code breakdown with instructions on where to stow each item. If orders put Item XA in the bottom hold, there Item XA must go, whether it turns out on arrival to be eggs, airplanes or cigarets...
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