Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...children had to squat on tin pails and fruit baskets for lack of chairs, and every day, because of the teacher shortage, hundreds of classes go "uncovered." i.e., teacherless). Many schools are shy of up-to-date textbooks. A $38,000,000 building program is still largely in the blueprint stage, and schoolhouses are dangerously decrepit (said Mayor William O'Dwyer: "Those old Civil War firetraps are ghastly"). Above all, parents don't want their boys & girls to pick up the "dese-&-dose" accent of many students, or the morals and manners of "Dead End Kids...
...plan last June, he seemed to have the whole non-Soviet world with him. But it soon became apparent that the A.E.C. was not getting anywhere. The Russians put up a plan of their own (completely unsatisfactory to the West), and simply dug in behind it. The U.S. blueprint was sound and sensible, but it was, after all, only a means to an end: effective atomic control. Baruch seemed to consider the slightest suggestion of change in the plan as an outrage and a sacrilege...
After nearly four hours of debate, the Assembly approved the blueprint for the refugee organization and its $160,000,000 budget by a vote of 30 to 5. Before it becomes effective, the constitution must be ratified by 15 nations or enough countries to contribute 75 percent of the total budget, in the event the first 15 are small contributors...
This Waldorf-Astoria lunch was a portent of the big-time buildup to come, a publicity campaign sketched out by high-priced public-relations expert Edward L. Bernays. But part of the publicity that followed wasn't in the Bernays blueprint. To reporters. Wallace pooh-poohed Senator Vandenberg's conversion to internationalism, credited it to young (37), able James Reston, national reporter of the New York Times. Next day Reston wrote a letter to the editor of the Times. Said...
Modeled in some ways on the prewar reciprocal trade pacts, the treaty provided for free & equal trade on a most-favored-nation basis. It contained some specific safeguards for American investment, but not at the expense of the Chinese nation or people. Besides furnishing a much-needed business blueprint, the conclusion of the pact was a peacetime implementation of a primary U.S. war thesis: that China is a big power now, and deserves to be treated as such. U.S. business naturally hoped that China would soon begin to behave like a grownup...