Word: technicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diversification. In case things go badly below the border, he has still another new project afoot: an I. T. & T. technical mission to help Russia rehabilitate her reconquered communications system. With talk of a $10 billion capital goods market in the U.S.S.R. after the war, an I. T. & T. technician on the ground floor today is the best possible advance agent for I. T. & T. equipment sales later...
...years, Victor Kravchenko was a loyal Russian minor official. He rose to be a voyentechnik (technician) with rank of captain in the Red Army. Suddenly in Manhattan last week he threw over his job-and his Russian citizenship-and placed himself "under the protection of American opinion." He gave his reasons in a letter that sharply rearoused half-forgotten U.S. suspicions of the Soviet...
...shrewd, imaginative physicist, Dr. Vannevar (rhymes with beaver) Bush, in peacetime president of the Carnegie Institution's vast scientific empire. His job is unprecedented in U.S. military history: as chairman of the Army & Navy's Joint Committee on New Weapons and Equipment, he is the first civilian technician ever to sit in the highest war councils. The Office of Scientific Research and Development, which he commands, is in effect a fifth branch, G5, of the military general staff. Under OSRD (working with the Army's and Navy's own laboratories), practically all the nation...
...provide trained brains for a technician's war, the A.S.T.P. was halted by the superior necessities of full-scale operations. Inevitable casualties demanded immediate replacements. Selective Service had failed by 200,000 to meet the Army's expected total of 7,700,000 by last year's end. Rejections among the 18-and ig-year-olds ran to an amazing 25%−mostly for psychiatric reasons.*And the Army had another reason: fighting men in the field were not pleased at the thought of able-bodied brothers-inarms softly berthed in campus foxholes...
...table of organization for this unit is a little unusual. It includes four basic pearl divers, an ASTP graduate (recently promoted to technician sixth grade) and two corporal ex-garbage collectors...