Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...year-old Roy 0. Hughes, president of 38,000 conductors. For 17 months, Kennedy and Hughes had been demanding that the carriers cut the work week in yards from 48 hours to 40, at the same time grant a 31?-an-hour wage boost so that yardmen would make as much money as when they worked the full 48. Actually, wages would be higher, since workers would get in more overtime at time-and-a-half. Similar demands were made on behalf of 168,000 trainmen and conductors who worked out on the roads. When management balked, the dispute chugged...
...sidearms ; why Offutt is fenced in and on the watch for saboteurs and guarded against paratroop surprise; why two men have been trained to spring to LeMay's side in case of trouble. It is why, too-though they know the decisions of state are not theirs to make-that men in SAC often fidget at the notion that they must first be hit before they can hit back. Like most men, they prefer peace and life to war and the possibility of death, but more than most men, they have had to condition themselves to a pessimistic reading...
...works them the hardest. "They know how I feel about them," he once explained. "They know I wouldn't hesitate to send them out on a one-way mission if it ever became necessary." For his commanders he has one stock warning: "You will make some mistakes, and I will back you up-until you make the same one the second time. But don't ever try to fool me. That will be your last mistake...
...ambition even then was to fly for the Army. He tried to make West Point, but couldn't get a congressional appointment. So at Ohio State* he began an alternate route to flying. He busied himself in R.O.T.C., graduated (in 1928) to a National Guard summer camp with a reserve commission. In the fall he began training as a flying cadet at California's March Field...
...transmitter at Wiesbaden. He invited his enlisted men to draw all the surplus radio equipment they needed to set up their own stations, often swapped midnight advice with his fellow hams. It was characteristic of his attitude towards his men: he never would step out of his way to make a public show of thoughtfulness, but was willing to rustle up radio gear on their behalf, be responsible for it and sit up late at night telling them how to use it. His reasoning: "I might want a lot of radio operators some...