Word: technicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning about the 20th day, the tests became negative. In one case all six tests became negative in 30 days. The others were completely negative by the 110th day except for one man for whom one delicate test remained doubtful (but Dr. Mahoney says "a clever technician" could easily have read that as negative too). Now, 130 days after treatment began, all the men are apparently well. But as syphilis often returns when doctors think they have it licked, the patients' blood and health are being rechecked every week...
When U.S. troops were advancing on Salamaua a fortnight ago, Lieut. Colonel Archibald Roosevelt and a small party set off in a boat to make a reconnaissance tour of Salamaua harbor. Archie ordered the boat close in to the shore. Jap guns began firing. In the boat was Technician (5th grade) John Bertot, who later told the story...
...Navy is sold. This week the second class (25 WAVES, 15 she-Marines) finishes the six-week course at Atlanta Naval Air Station, comes out with third-class petty officer technician ratings. Soon they will be graduated 75 to a class, will eventually replace 60% of men operators for airports overseas...
...great beachhead, about 100 miles long and 50 miles deep. Inside that beachhead, Albert Kesselring had 18 airfields, two cities with radiating roads, many good heights, some fixed fortifications, plenty of guns, and perhaps 175,000 men. He had Rommel, a proved master of battle, and Arnim, an aristocratic technician. And he had orders...
...Carey spoke out of plenty of experience. Born in Philadelphia, he worked his way up swiftly from a job as laboratory technician to the presidency of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. In 1941 he became a labor member of the Production Planning Board of OPM, in the period when the Communist Party still called the war another "imperialist venture." Largely as a result of Communist opposition, he was defeated for re-election as president of the United Electrical workers in the 1941 convention...