Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After eight months of V1, military scientists were more impressed than ever with robomb potentialities. "The importance of the V-weapons," wrote Hanson W. Baldwin, military columnist of the New York Times, summing up battlefront reports, "increases...
Such companies as Baldwin Locomotive Works, Giddings & Lewis Machine Tool Co., H. K. Ferguson Co. and American Cyanamid supplied FEA with detailed specifications...
Time to Investigate. Baldwin thought he knew where the blame lay: with the War Department, hamstrung by "conservatism and traditionalism. . . . There is no lack of American inventive genius, no lack of engineering skill, no lack of devotion and energy [among designers and technicians], but there is a superfluity of red tape [among brass hats]; there is overorganization and there is lack of clear, directive vision [with the War Department...
...Baldwin thought it high time Congress began to find out why all this should be. "For only by getting the facts ... no matter how punishing to our conceit-can we rid ourselves of the national habit of boastful self-deceit...
Since 1936 talented Angela Thirkeil, who is. as stylistically languid as her Pre-Raphaelite grandfather Edward Burne-Jones and as staunchly British as her cousins Stanley Baldwin and the late Rudyard Kipling, has made hay in the fictitious fields of Barsetshire - the mythical English region created by Victorian Novel ist Anthony Trollope. In a series of novels (including the best-selling The Brandons and Northbridge Rectory}, Author Thirkell has peopled Barsetshire with 20th-Century "descendants" of Trollope's squires, rural deans, bluebloods, housemaids and self-made men - all of whom breathe an air of whimsy, nostalgia and laconic...