Word: commandeering
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...Lycoming to sell Stinson motors at absolute factory cost, a thing Lycoming can well afford because its aviation motor business is a small part of its whole. Stinson thus can charge so much less for its finished planes. This it did during last week. For competitive reasons others, notably Command-Aire and Great Lakes, also cut prices. But most firms jigged stubbornly between high production costs and low demands. Altogether, contracts for only $3,000,000 worth of planes were written up at the show...
...rear-end outside seats for machine-gunners, built high to command a clear view of snipers...
...unthinkable horror, remote and impersonal: it becomes human and tragic because, as time passes, in the manner in which each man faces or avoids the thought of what is coming his nature is made clear. There is Pollack who goes crazy and is shot. There is the ensign in command, a little fellow just out of Annapolis, with a pathetic courage and a dormitory sense of duty, who faces death by recalling the heroic memory of John Paul Jones. Cobb likes girls and Costello likes liquor and the radio operator is a sarcastic fellow. In the effort to keep sane...
...purposes of the Naval R. O. T. C. is to train officers, that is, leaders of men," declared Captain B. B. Wygant, U. S. N., professor of Naval Science and Tactics, in stating the value and aims of military drill yesterday. "No man can lead or command others effectively until he can command himself...
...Group drill, like team athletics, teaches self control or command over oneself while a member of the group When acting as a leader one develops in addition self confidence, initiative, and a sense of responsibility. Moreover such drill improves posture, teaches alertness, and inoculates respect for authority...