Word: tiptop
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...officer candidate schools. Graduates of officers' schools would have to spend another year on active duty, keep alert, from then on, with correspondence courses and short annual periods of soldiering in the field. Most would go on the inactive list at 30, although the Army would hang onto tiptop reserve officers until the regular retirement...
...important railroad decisions last week the Supreme Court in effect laid down a basic principle: It is more important for bankrupt roads to drastically revise their capital structures and get in tiptop working condition than it is to protect their junior bondholders and stockholders...
...Royal Navy's gantlet by night and air transports few back & forth from Sicily over a shuttle that took little more than an hour's flying time. German and Italian troops have arrived since Dec. 1 at the estimated rate of 2,400 a day, with tiptop equipment and plenty...
...companies that his plan was best. Lastly he got the unexpected help of the war boom. MOP's net available for dividends soared from a loss of $9,564,000 in 1940 to a record $30,600,000 in 1942. Meanwhile, the once-rickety road was put in tiptop condition, with a whopping $480,000,000 spent for new equipment, repairs and maintenance...
...permitting the determination of physical fitness without expensive equipment and specialized personnel, and in a short period of time, the Step Test is especially important in wartime when we are dealing with large groups of men and when tiptop condition is essential. The test is already being used in certain branches of the armed forces where a high degree of physical efficiency is required, especially in pre-flight training. it is also serving to help select officer candidates, for an officer must be physically able to lead his men at all times...