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Beyond these obvious lacks, Hugh Drum found others to point at. One of them was a shortage of troops. He turned it into a plug for conscription. Said he: "We are wasting time and ignoring basic lessons of history by months of discussing the volunteer versus the conscription system." Other faults he blamed on lack of training. He found smaller units (com panies, battalions, etc.) weak on the basic mechanics of fighting - patrolling, reconnaissance, communications. He found waste of man power. "Too many com manders," said he, "expected all officers and all men to be at work...
...Jack David Angus Ogilvy, to Britain for a visit. His nephew, the ninth Earl, took him through the stables at Airlie, asked him to pick a winner for the Grand National at Aintree. Lyulph Ogilvy chose a scrawny, rawboned horse named Master Robert. Said young Airlie scornfully: "Why, that plug's not good for anything but plowing-that's what we are using him for now." But Ogilvy's choice was groomed for the Grand National, got home the winner...
Destroyers. But the Committee's chief remaining objective remained: to secure the U. S. release of 50 World War I destroyers to plug the biggest gap in British defenses. When General Pershing urged it as a measure of U. S. security (TIME, Aug. 12), prompt objection came from Columnist Hugh Johnson, who pointed out that his old commanding officer and No. 1 hero among U. S. military men was a great general, but no expert on the sea. Last week two retired sea dogs, under the White Committee's auspices, added their voices to General Pershing...
...paid a flat $10 a month plus room and board. They print the Witness magazines (Watch Tower and Consolation, circulations respectively 200,000 and 50,000), books and booklets (309,485,000 since 1920, 27,000,000 in 1939), make the phonographs and recordings which co-workers plug from door to door...
...Spark plug of the pilot training program is quiet-mannered, businesslike Assistant Secretary of Commerce Robert H. Hinckley, who this March, as tsar of U. S. commercial aviation, celebrated its first year with no airline fatalities, a record which helped him sell jittery Congressmen on a bigger civilian training program for 1940-41. Bob Hinckley took his first airplane ride with pioneer German aviatrix Melli Beese when he was touring Europe as a Mormon missionary. Expelled from Germany because his gospel was believed to be disturbing the peace, he returned to the U. S. to found the Utah-Pacific Airlines...