Word: personnel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sharpest differences of opinion is over air-strength. The claims of the British to a superior air personnel are dismissed by the professionals as fantastic. Aviation, the professionals say, is a young man's game; hence a lack of good pilots in the early-thirty age brackets is not critical. Free-lance figures for British and French air strength are judged far too high. Free lance authorities set British monthly plane replacement capacity at 600, professionals say it is closer to 240. They admit, however, that the British production rate is rising. But, while the British may have solved...
President Roosevelt took him from TVA, where he was personnel director for two years, to be chairman of his Advisory Committee on Education, which last year delivered a momentous report recommending Federal aid to education...
When I first saw the heavily Jewish passenger list I was in the same frame of mind as Mr. Caldwell-all sympathy and just waiting for a chance to condemn any discourtesy on the part of German passengers or ship's personnel. . . . Instead, they made themselves thoroughly objectionable, with the exception of two charming families who, by the way, did not mix with the others. They stared and made loud comments about fellow passengers, they were rude and demanding with the stewards, they made the decks and public rooms as untidy and dirty as I have never seen them...
...caused 70% of the gunshot wounds (compared to artillery's 10% in the Civil War, when small arms caused 90% of wounds). As in all armies, the infantry in the World War had the highest casualty rate; aviation along with ordnance the lowest (only 8% of Air Corps personnel are pilots...
Officials may come and go with alarming frequency in most Government offices of the U. S. S. R., but not in the Soviet Foreign Commissariat. Amid all the shifts, purges and disappearances of Soviet officials, the Foreign Commissariat's topmost personnel has remained so constant that in 21 years since the proletarian revolution Soviet Russia has had only two Foreign Commissars: Georgy Vasilievich Chicherin, from 1918 to 1930 and Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, his successor...