Word: hours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME forgets the capital investment required, plus the average eleven-hour work day, plus the high accident rate, plus the many years required to gain the necessary knowledge, plus the risks due to uncontrollable climatic conditions...
...carbine-carrying, khaki-clad youths who lounged ominously outside; they were members of the 1,500-strong "special police" hired by provincial Governor Rafael Lacson to make sure that the election would turn out the way he wanted it. Police carried off ballot boxes to his home an hour before the polls closed; some ballots had been marked and laid away two weeks before...
...were tired of continued retreat and fearful of losing their jobs, to come over to the winning side. The Reds' envoys had more trouble with American pilots, presumably won over a few with assurances of continued high pay (up to U.S. $1,000 a month for 74 hours' flying,, plus $10 an hour for overtime), soothed everyone by saying that no politics need be involved...
...almost all of CATC's American personnel stood by the Nationalists. Major General Claire Chennault, who runs Civil Air Transport, third civilian airline in Nationalist China, put his planes on 24-hour service, offered jobs to CNAC and CATC men of "proven loyalty." "I don't want anything to do with that [Communist] outfit," said one flyer. Another showed U.S. newsmen a cable signed "Mother" and begging: "Don't fly for other party. Please come home...
Battle Plans. At West Point, where meticulous Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik spends four hours at the planning tables for every hour on the practice field, organization reaches a precise, military perfection. Squads of specialists, drilling on separate fields and concentrating on detailed battle plans hatched by the commander in chief, can point for and defeat a stronger foe. After eleven months of intense prep aration (TIME, Oct. 17), Army did just that to Michigan. Says Blaik: "It's like plotting a military campaign. I get a tremendous kick out of it." Like Notre Dame's Frank Leahy...