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Last week the fast-greying generals whose job it is to train astronomical numbers of young men to fly delicate complex machines thought they might have hit upon a way to save some of the young men from dying early, some of the machines from being smashed. Hard-pressed to turn out more pilots quicker,* the Flying Command scheme is simple: teach the teachers. Throughout his huge, 56-station Southeast Training Command, Major General Ralph Royce has set up Advisory Training Boards (formerly called Flying Evaluation Boards) to comb over the instructors, re-educate them if necessary...
...Laura Garrison, employed since 1928, has won 17 awards. Her latest: an improved design for transmitter parts which go into highly complex aviation equipment. Award...
...Tincture of iodine has been replaced by an alcoholic solution of complex phenols that penetrate deeply into the skin but that do not corrode metal or stain linen...
Whether Jimmy Doolittle's zest and aptitude for personal leadership will carry him through the biggest job of his life, with all the complexities of command in the unusually complex Mediterranean theater, is still a question. But it is not a big question in the minds of airmen who have known him since he was a fledgling. Said one of them last week: "Time just went by, and he improved with time, that...
...name is Herman Hastings Garner, president of the Vortox Manufacturing Co., inventor and by far the largest builder of a complex carburetor air cleaner, without the like of which tanks would bog down in the desert, their engine cylinders irreparably scored by sand and dust...