Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parker House Roof was well crowded with Officer Candidates and Midshipmen from Chase Hall who generously contributed to making the dance a huge success...
...extra care they need: job fitting, transportation arrangements, special legal provisions, safety precautions (epileptics should not operate dangerous machines, fat people Should not Climb ladders). Consolidated Aircraft's 700 handi capped workers, for example, have the best attendance record in the plant. One small company has had such success with handicapped workers that they now com prise the majority of the employes : about 75 of the 85 workers at Minneapolis' C. & F. Tool Co. are handicapped...
...flown the long battle of airfields from Clark Field in the Philippines to the bastion of Australia. This week the story was out, in a new book by War Correspondent W. L. White (They Were Expendable, TIME, Sept. 28). Using the formula that was such a sensational success in the tale of the PT boats in the Philippines, Author White lets Frank Kurtz and his crew talk of those dark, terrible days...
Suddenly G.B.S. remembered the author's work, paid it an offhand compliment: "[Mr. Cole's] book is good enough for the occasion and better; and nothing I have said about it must be taken as a disparagement. . . . He is, if anything, too modest, for the enormous success of socialism in Russia has been a triumph of Fabian tactics over revolutionary catastrophism. . . . The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics can now be quite properly called the Union of Soviet Fabian Socialist Republics...
...their systematic, silent war against the shipping which supplied Japan's island conquests, U.S. submarines in the Pacific last week were credited with further success: seven Japanese vessels sunk, six of them merchant ships, one a destroyer. This brought the total of Japanese ships sent to the bottom by U.S. submarine action to 168. Also listed were 25 "probables" and 42 vessels damaged...