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...politician, but an ambitious careerist, Brauchitsch had studied hard during the years he spent in a swivel chair. He mastered his own specialty, artillery, then went on to pore over the more theoretical aspects of warfare. He became a firm believer in a strong defense as a prelude to any kind of warfare, and, with Adolf Hitler's, his eyes were turned to the East as the next battleground for the Reich...
...call of the swivel chair and big buzzers with buttons once again proves more potent than the excitement of the courtroom or the harrowing drama of the country doctor's life as the Senior class plumps for business as an intended vocation over law and medicine...
...fallen ramparts. Somewhere a housewife will wipe her red hands upon her apron and smile down at the first bewildering crocus. Along Marlborough Street the neat old gentlemen will have belatedly hung up their Chesterfields and derbies. Somewhere, yes. But here? Here there is a terrifying notice posted. So swivel your eyes and your thoughts back to this book, Vag. The notice say: "Regular meetings in all courses will conclude...
...Donald Douglas' big baby, but three years ago it was a gleam in another man's eye. William A. Patterson, president of United Air Lines, is a small man, quick-moving, quick-witted. In his Chicago office his papers heap two desks. Between the desks, in a swivel chair with well-oiled casters, Mr. Patterson shuttles back & forth. What has made the papers so many and the shuttling so nervous was a bad situation and a good idea. The bad situation: the wasteful competition between U. S. airlines, particularly in independently developing expensive experimental planes, then all investing...
Many a U. S. businessman, dreaming in his swivel chair, has gone a-voyaging to the South Seas. But few are the voyages that have not been abruptly terminated by the jangle of a telephone. Alfred Thornton Baker of Princeton, N. J. is one businessman who not only dreamed...