Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of these workouts candidates learn of more ways to throw a medicine ball than they had previously thought remotely conceivable, practice simulating pointer dogs, folding jackknives, and steel springs, contortions which the gray-haired director executes with the greatest ease, while his younger and potentially better adapted charges resemble octogenarians when attempting to accomplish the same maneuvers...
...monthly capacity of its factories. Last week plants like Martin and Lockheed were hiring men as fast as they could be interviewed. They were not greatly worried about a shortage of skilled mechanics because army and civilian schools were turning them out by the hundreds. Black-browed West Pointer president Jack Jouett of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, who knows the capabilities of U. S. Aircraft factories as well as he knows where to find the throttle in any military airplane, calculated that within six months the industry could step up its production to 1,000 planes a month...
...Manhattan, District WPAdministrator Brehon Burke Somervell, like his chief in Washington a West Pointer (lieutenant colonel), retorted with equal heat: "You can't strike against relief! It's fantastic!" (Columnist Arthur ("Bugs") Baer cracked: "Mutiny on the bounty.") He threatened arrest for anyone who sought to deprive others of WPA's benefits. He filled gaps in WPA's skilled ranks with qualified applicants from the city's home-relief lists, and by shifting skilled non-unionists from project to project. At the unionists he snorted: "If they'd all quit...
...cheerful West Pointer who shouldered the load of grief which Harry Hopkins put down just in time, Administrator Francis Clark ("Pink") Harrington of WPA, last week went up to the Capitol armed with a 39-page statement and a heart full of spunk. The subcommittee charged with producing a Relief bill for 1940. headed by Virginia's urbane Representative Woodrum, had heard scores of witnesses. Now at last it was the turn of "Pink" Harrington, the one man most vitally affected by changes the bill they had already drafted would make in his regime...
...when Annapolis Man John Blish and West Pointer John Taliafer Thompson whipped up the first submachine gun, they knew they had something. By the time Commander Blish died in 1926, Brigadier General Thompson, full of honors from long service, had long since retired from the army to become chief advisory engineer of Auto-Ordnance Co. Chief financial backers were Capitalist Thomas Fortune Ryan, who held 51% of the stock, and George Harvey, who held a smaller block. Onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Harvey went to his grave soft-pedaling his interest in the company which...