Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more were in training in factories, 10,000 more waited their turns. While Detroit's great auto factories retooled for tanks and planes, their workers studied plane welding, tank assembling, parachute making, etc. Lights in 30 Detroit schools blazed all night. Factories gave foremen leaves of absence to teach in the schools; some paid their workers full wages to go to school for more training...
...school now are officer representatives of Cavalry, Coast Artillery, Engineers, Field Artillery. Some are volunteers, others have been sent by their commanders. Many of them are expected to become instructors, help teach throughout the Army efficient military methods...
...climbing in & out of trucks, they get an idea how to load troops comfortably, estimate loading capacities. To teach them how to judge marching speed, Colonel Bell makes them hoof for miles. Functions are rotated every day, so that everybody gets a crack at every...
...even Thurman Arnold, had any notion of how else the cigaret industry could or should operate. Arnold, whom Max Lerner has placed in the "corrosive detachment" school of economic criticism, merely snorted that "competitive buying presupposes that nobody will tell business how it should be run." Unless fines can teach a whole industry some new way to make money, there is still no assurance that henceforth tobacco will not be bought and cigarets sold in just about the same way as before...
...poll proved mainly that the way to make boys and girls like farming is to teach them to do a good job of it. The delegates, all champions, were the pick of 1,500,000 members of the 4-H (Head, Heart, Hands, Health) Clubs, which are sponsored and led by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. At the Congress they vied for 47 college scholarships, from $100 to $300 (4-H has a strict ceiling of $300, designed to prevent winners from taking things too easy, make them at least partly self-supporting). Outstanding prizewinners were two boys...