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Marathon Strides. Highly enterprising is Marathon Paper Mills of Rothschild, Wis., makers of food containers and chemicals. In 1927 Marathon summoned Chemical Engineer Guy C. Howard, gave him a platoon of Ph.D.s and the job of finding more profitable channels for waste lignin than the Wisconsin River. Today, after 15 years of research costing some $2,000,000, Marathon adds lime to its waste liquors, precipitates out calcium lignin sulfonate, turns it into...
Gazecki was a star student in the College during his four years here. Awarded the Henry D. and Jonathan M. Parmenter Scholarship he was the editor of the Naval Science Bulletin last year and was platoon commander...
Suddenly (showing that the crazy helter-skelter of tanks was as tightly controlled by radio as a well-commanded platoon of infantry) all the tanks of one adversary wheel out of the fight. The other tanks also go off to a rendezvous...
...Antonescu, his Fourth Army supported by German auxiliaries, moved into action. German support, it appeared, also included a good deal of prodding. A Rumanian platoon commander, later killed in action, wrote in his diary: "Our men are grumbling and asking what business do we have beyond the Dniester. But Germans are behind us and they don't answer such questions-except with their guns. . . . We'll be commanded to sacrifice our lives in order to seize what never belonged to us. So it must be, they tell...
...jailed for beating up an officer. Released after the Revolution, he rose to be a Red cavalry commander. Though the Marshal has recently been engaged in stamping out democratic procedures once favored by the Red Army, he got his own early promotions in the democratic manner-he was elected platoon and later squadron commander of a Black Sea cavalry detachment...