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...hard-studying, hard-drilling Cadets are right out of a football coach's dream. For six weeks Army Coach Blaik had carefully nursed his blessings, polishing his flashing T attack, proving his line, patiently pre paring for a payoff. Last week, suped-up to their mental and physical peak, the Cadets exploded against Notre Dame...
...whole world, all I had. He lived as he died, always on the peak of excellence...
...Although it is clearly evident," the study stated, "that the pressure for production and constant changes of schedule which reached a peak in the aircraft industry during the years 1942 and 1943 made impossible the organization of operations which must be the basis of teamwork, the conclusions of our study indicate that management's lack of awareness of the need to consider the requirements of balanced operation made it in a significant way responsible for the absences and turnover for which workers are so widely blamed...
...seasonal peak in freight traffic had the railroads hustling to prevent the tightest car supply in 20 years from developing into a serious car shortage. Car-loadings for the week of Oct. 21 numbered 905,941, unchanged from a year ago. But this year freight ton-miles are expected to hit an alltime high of 750 billion, up 3% over last year, and more than double 1939's ton-miles...
...than in 1939, and 5% less than in 1941. But the Department's report confirmed what every housewife knows: sky-high retail prices make purchases of essentials seem like a mad squandering of money. Thus the dollar volume of retail sales this year are guesstimated at an alltime peak of $67 billion - up 60% over 1939, and 20% over...