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...most formidable post-World-War I innovation, contains some 450 tanks. It includes a tank brigade and a motorized infantry brigade. The tank brigade is divided into two regiments each of two battalions. Each battalion has three light and one medium tank company. Each company is subdivided into four platoons. In the light tank companies three of the platoons consist of three tanks (one the leader's) with a machine gun and a 20-mm. gun apiece, two with two machine guns. The fourth platoon's tanks all carry 37-mm. guns. In addition, a tank company includes...
...Leonard Lockhart had been a soldier on the Western Front. One summer's day, after he saw every comrade in his platoon wiped out, he collapsed with "shell shock." Unlike most victims, he pulled himself together and soon returned to the trenches. But several times after the war, when faced by small crises, he completely lost his memory for a few hours...
...Fired 150 Fair police and 205 college-boy information cadets. (Irked by their dismissal, one cadet platoon waded through the two mirror pools from the Four Freedoms statues to the George Washington statue, indulged in horseplay...
...order to give all students opportunity for training in leadership the duties of non-commissioned officers and officers were rotated among all those in attendance at camp. All men performed the duties of corporal and sergeant, about one-half were privileged to be platoon leaders. The Harvard battery commanders were Edwin R. Clarke '39; Allen E. Puckett '39; Charles C. Snyder '39; Donald L. Daughters '39, Kenneth Booth '39 and Frank E. Southard...
...California Railroad Commission appealed. The Federal Power Commission then intervened in the case to attempt to convert the Supreme Court to the "prudent investment" concept. This week, while the Court will be pondering the case, President Roosevelt will discuss his rate-making ideas at the White House with a platoon of potent powermen, as did Mr. Hoover...