conditioning march

марш; маршевое передвижение; походное движение; переход; совершать марш; см. тж. movement

— accelerated march

— administrative march

— Admiral's march

— approach march

— armored march

— at ease march

— battle march

— blackout march

— close column tactical march

— compass march

— concentration march

— conditioning march

— day's march

— deployment march

— enforced march

— Expert Infantryman Badge march

— extended road march

— extended vehicle march

— fighting march

— flank march

— foot march

— forced march

— infiltration tactical march

— lateral march

— long-range march

— maneuver march

— march by bounds

— march by frogleaping

— march in anticipation of meeting engagement

— military march

— motorized march

— mounted march

— moving-by-terrain march

— multiple route march

— night compass march

— night march

— oblique march

— open column tactical march

— practice march

— quick march

— road march

— route march

— silent march

— slow march

— speed march

— tactical road march

— tactical vehicular march

— training march

— vehicle march

— vehicular march

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марш; маршевое передвижение; походное движение; переход; совершать марш; см. тж. movement

— accelerated march

— administrative march

— Admiral's march

— approach march

— armored march

— at ease march

— battle march

— blackout march

— close column tactical march

— compass march

— concentration march

— conditioning march

— day's march

— deployment march

— enforced march

— Expert Infantryman Badge march

— extended road march

— extended vehicle march

— fighting march

— flank march

— foot march

— forced march

— infiltration tactical march

— lateral march

— long-range march

— maneuver march

— march by bounds

— march by frogleaping

— march in anticipation of meeting engagement

— military march

— motorized march

— mounted march

— moving-by-terrain march

— multiple route march

— night compass march

— night march

— oblique march

— open column tactical march

— practice march

— quick march

— road march

— route march

— silent march

— slow march

— speed march

— tactical road march

— tactical vehicular march

— training march

— vehicle march

— vehicular march

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• 1) марш; 2) март

• совершать марш

— action drill

— aiming drill

— antiriot drill

— arms drill

— artillery drill

— assault battle drill

— bayonet drill

— bridge deployment drill

— cadence drill

— casualty drill

— ceremonial arms drill

— ceremonial drill

— chance contact drill

— chemical immediate action drill

— close order drill

— combat drill

— company drill

— compulsory drill

— conditioning drill

— crew drill

— deployment drill

— dismounted crew drill

— dismounting drill

— disordered drill

— displacement drill

— double-sentry drill

— drill against time

— drill by command

— drill in non-pay status

— driving drill

— dummy drill

— emergency drill

— evacuation drill

— extended order drill

— extra drill

— fire drill

— foot drill

— foot/arms drill

— freeze and hasty ambush drill

— gas mask drill

— general drill

— general quarters drill

— gun drill

— identification drill

— immediate-action drill

— individual drill

— infantry drill

— laying drill

— life drill

— live firing battle drill

— magazine drill

— march drill

— masking drill

— mock drill

— morning drill

— mounted battle drills

— multiple drill

— normal drill

— parade drill

— precision drill

— prefiring drill

— recruit drill

— respirator canister changing drill

— tactical drill

— unit driving drills

— week-end drill

— wet-net drill

— whistle drill

SUBJECT AREA: Domestic appliances and interiors, Metallurgy

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Gillette's formal education in Chicago was brought to an end when a disastrous fire destroyed all his father's possessions. Forced to fend for himself, he worked first in the hardware trade in Chicago and New York, then as a travelling salesman. Gillette inherited the family talent for invention, but found that his successful inventions barely paid for those that failed. He was advised by a previous employer, William Painter (inventor of the Crown Cork), to look around for something that could be used widely and then thrown away. In 1895 he succeeded in following that advice of inventing something which people could use and then throw away, so that they would keep coming back for more. An idea came to him while he was honing an old-fashioned razor one morning; he was struck by the fact that only a short piece of the whole length of a cutthroat razor is actually used for shaving, as well as by the potentially dangerous nature of the implement. He "rushed out to purchase some pieces of brass, some steel ribbon used for clock springs, a small hand vise and some files". He thought of using a thin steel blade sharpened on each side, placed between two plates and held firmly together by a handle. Though coming from a family of inventors, Gillette had no formal technical education and was entirely ignorant of metallurgy. For six years he sought a way of making a cheap blade from sheet steel that could be hardened, tempered and sharpened to a keen edge.

Gillette eventually found financial supporters: Henry Sachs, a Boston lamp manufacturer; his brother-in-law Jacob Heilbron; and William Nickerson, who had a considerable talent for invention. By skilled trial and error rather than expert metallurgical knowledge, Nickerson devised ways of forming and sharpening the blades, and it was these that brought commercial success. In 1901, the American Safety Razor Company, later to be renamed the Gillette Safety Razor Company, was set up. When it started production in 1903 the company was badly in debt, and managed to sell only fifty-one razors and 168 blades; but by the end of the following year, 90,000 razors and 12.4 million blades had been sold. A sound invention coupled with shrewd promotion ensured further success, and eight plants manufacturing safety razors were established in various parts of the world. Gillette's business experiences led him into the realms of social theory about the way society should be organized. He formulated his views in a series of books published over the years 1894 to 1910. He believed that competition led to a waste of up to 90 per cent of human effort and that want and crime would be eliminated by substituting a giant trust to plan production centrally. Unfortunately, the public in America, or anywhere else for that matter, were not ready for this form of Utopia; no omniscient planners were available, and human wants and needs were too various to be supplied by a single agency. Even so, some of his ideas have found favour: air conditioning and government provision of work for the unemployed. Gillette made a fortune from his invention and retired from active participation in the business in 1913, although he remained President until 1931 and Director until his death.

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