Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cause of their asking was the following train of events: Premier Ki Inukai was assassinated by Japanese cadets (TIME, May 23). War Minister Lieut. General Sadao Araki, who should thereupon have resigned (according to Japanese tradi tion), did not resign but accepted the resignation of General Nobuyoshi Miito, who was then Director of Military Education and directly responsible for the cadets. General Miito, far from being demoted after his resignation, was assigned to the Supreme War Council (TIME, June 6). Last week came a climax. General Miito, it was reported, is to be sent to Manchuria in supreme command...
...telegraph system. He passed two days meeting with depart mental managers, discussing leases, pur chases, operations. The next day he flew to Amarillo where his company has im portant gas holdings. He looked over their reports, took off again. Twice forced down by bad weather, he caught a train at Winslow, Ariz., continued to Los Angeles. There, in a comfortable suite at the Biltmore, he had little time for rest before his rooms were jammed with attorneys, bankers and accountants. All this excitement was over Richfield Oil Co. of Cali fornia. Mr. Sinclair's company recently...
...long specialized on multiple control systems for railways, which have been universally adopted on electrical elevated & subway lines. Working in his Canal Street, Manhattan laboratories on the top floor of an eight-story building from 9 a. m. to 10 p. m. daily, he has completed an auxiliary train control to take charge if the engineer makes a mistake, as though "God were in the cab with the engineer...
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...first job, then became a draftsman for Pennsylvania Railroad at $50 a month. He caught the attention of bush-bearded Leonor Fresnel Loree, then general manager of the road. He was whipped through every department of the Pennsylvania to get a background which would enable him to teach and train employes. In 1911 he was given the task of rehabilitating the Long Island Railroad. With this experience, he left in 1914 for England. He carried two suitcases when he sailed, one filled with clothes, the other with reports of England's Great Eastern Railway of which...