Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work out a blind-landing system. They developed the idea with practical help on production problems from Gilfillan engineers. The first G.C.A. was a cumbersome rig, with 705 radio and cathode-ray tubes, but it worked. Gilfillan got a contract to make 112; the Navy ordered another 80 units from a competitor. Gilfillan says he hustled out his 100th unit while his competitor was on his fifth. Yet he charged the Government only a 1.1% profit (virtually a West Coast record in self-denial) and turned back $1,000,000 he had saved it in costs. Now that his wartime...
...place of the current act, President Conant suggested the building of a vast reserve establishment of all youths of 18 to 28. He proposed placing every youth, upon graduation from high school, or on becoming 18, into a local unit subject to orders from the national government...
Obligations of such a unit would be fulfilled in two-month periods of military training and in local weekly meetings. He suggested that anyone wishing to avoid such a duty be allowed to volunteer for immediate two-year service in the armed forces...
...Lion ointment is the crippling lack of reserve strength which may force Little to play the entire game with less than fifteen men. Although the first eleven is a strong, experienced unit, the reserves are far below standard. Pass defense, which spelled disaster in the two losses the Lions sustained last season (Penn and Yale) seemed much improved in the Rutgers opener in which Columbia intercepted four of 21 Scarlet passes, and could have had two others were it not for fourth down situations...
Punting practice and dummy work launched today's workout. Later in the afternoon, Lamar led one of his elevens in a short scrimmage with a Jayvee unit...