Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee also recommends that the ROTC unit at Harvard retain its affiliation with the Artillery. The course taught in the College would be general, however, and cadets would not specialize. All ROTC courses will now be open to non-cadet students for credit...
With two-thirds of a mile left, Oddliefson's shell started to move out. The beat increased gradually. Strokes were clean and the crew rowed as a right unit as it pulled up and passed the Green...
...marched from Manhattan's Bowling Green to City Hall, where General Matthew Ridgway, Mayor Robert Wagner, and a host of brass were waiting to welcome them home. Along Broadway the traditional ticker tape slithered down on the marching men-the first to return from Korea as a unit-and a crowd of 250,000 New Yorkers cheered them on their way. After the ceremonies, the men of the Thunderbird Division dispersed, some to other units, others to civilian life, and the 45th, a National Guard outfit, was honorably retired from active duty and sent back to its home state...
Private Snort. The caucus room coverage was smoothly professional. Under pool arrangements, it was ABC's turn to supply equipment and technicians. In a steaming mobile unit parked in the Senate building courtyard, Ed Scherer, a 25-year-old TV director for Baltimore's WMAR-TV, selected the best shots to be fed to the networks. After pedestrian coverage the first morning, the cameramen sharpened, even anticipated Joe McCarthy's points of order. Said one: "When he looks disgusted, we put our camera on him." At one point, McCarthy passed a scribbled note...
Under the M-K banner, Ferguson has shifted from a conservative fixed-fee (cost plus a set profit) operation to a more competitive unit-cost (one price for the job) contract. Says Morrison: "A business isn't worth a damn unless you get out and compete." In the first year under Morrison, Ferguson's gross climbed from $27.8 million to $73 million (net: more than $1,000,000), and its backlog jumped from $20 million to $85 million...