Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Colonel Charles P. Summerall Jr. and Colonel Stephen E. Stancisko, commanding officers of the R.O.T.C. at Harvard and Yale respectively, are both seasoned soldiers who would never make it a habit to disregard suggestions from topside. But when it came to the latest Army Department gimmick for luring college men into R.O.T.C., Colonels Summerall and Stancisko drew the line. The gimmick: a stickily written little comic book which R.O.T.C. commanders were authorized to distribute to incoming freshmen...
...make sure the scheme was okay, Translease checked with San Francisco's Federal Reserve Bank. FRB said okay-as long as customers are not permitted to apply rental payments towards buying the car. Both companies had been leasing fleets of cars to business firms for some time. But with credit controls they thought private-car leasing looked much more profitable...
...page 5 of Randall and the River of Time, the hero stands, in the year 1917, at the crossing of two trenches in France, and wonders which way to go. At that point Hero Charles Randall and Author C. S. Forester make their big mistake: the hero turns left. Had he turned right, Randall would have been neatly dispatched in a German raid on a British strongpoint. Author Forester, whose Captain Horatio Hornblower is one of the best historical romances in the language, would thus have been spared the shame of scattering Hornblower's wake with a fictional mess...
...spring in California, his former employees said Richards not only insisted that causes he favored receive a maximum amount of time on the air but also wanted opposing views minimized or suppressed. Richards' almost daily instructions to his staff were alleged to have included orders on one occasion to make General Bennett Meyers seem...
Serious consideration of these minor problems could knit individual outstanding freshmen into a team. It could make football more attractive to present Yardlings, as well as to the potential Yardlings who are so badly needed...