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...Christian Beacon found the matter indicative of "a most deplorable and desperate condition" in the Navy. The Beacon's editor, the Rev. Carl Mc-Intire, took the occasion to wind up with a slap at Chief of Naval Chaplains Robert D. Workman, "who is a minister of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and who . . . has set out to produce a chaplaincy corps in the Navy which is streamlined according to his own ideas. . . . This information is brought with the one desire of helping to correct the condition, and that we shall have a man at the head...
...This workman of the Chicago Musical Instrument Co. is putting the finishing touches on a plastic trumpet for Army buglers. The Army Quartermaster Corps has ordered 10,000. Plastic trumpets (made of tenite) sound as loudly as brass ones, are truer to pitch because they do not require warming up. The plastic instruments are also easier to blow, featherweight, can be made in any color, require no polishing, can be easily mended. Further, they do not reflect light, hence cannot reveal positions to the enemy. Last week Quartermaster Corps officials looked forward to a plastic age, from trumpets to tubas...
...subject of a lifetime for him-the Four Freedoms-Rockwell woke with a start at 3, full of ideas. He managed to stay in bed till 5; then he was up and busy with sketches. He called in Neighbor Carl Hess; Hess stood for the shy, brave young workman of Freedom of Speech. A Mrs. Harrington became the devout old woman in Freedom of Worship. A Jim Martin appears in all four posters. All told, the job took seven months...
...months ago the Navy's few chaplains (there were only 96 in 1939) got only haphazard training. A new chaplain simply worked under a veteran, picked up the knack from him. In February 1942, 58-year-old Navy Chief of Chaplains Robert DuBois Workman, who smokes cigars in his ten-inch stem pipe, organized the first training school at Norfolk. Last March the school, jammed with new candidates-Protestants, Catholics and Jews -moved to the Virginia college, where several groups of 25 to 40 constantly train for duty...
...needed. Air and fuel gas are automatically circulated, picking up lithium vapor from a small, renewable cartridge about the size of a tin cup, which lasts for eight hours. As long as the exhaust gas burns with the bright scarlet flame characteristic of the spectrum of lithium salts, any workman not color-blind can see that the furnace is working properly...