Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practiced glibness makes even Mr. White a little uneasy. He concedes that his shimmering blueprint "will be too purely theoretical for the practicing statesman, who is faced with the grim job of operating with equipment at hand. . . ." Since practicing statesmen can do little else, this admission is perhaps fatal...
...outdoor advertising. He bought the ships from the Navy for $10,000 each (original cost: $400,000) last year when they were scheduled to be cut up for raincoats. He worked out their present application in his cubbyhole Manhattan office, where the colossal has often been corralled into a blueprint. The dirigibles are visible for five miles at night, can reach an estimated audience of 31,000,000 people, cost advertisers $19,000 a month. Leigh has already bought four more ships, hopes soon to get them afloat...
...Only a Blueprint. General Clay's broad operational instructions have been unchanged since last year's Joint Chiefs of Staff directive 1067, which is nothing more than a blueprint for faithfully executing the Potsdam agreement on the assumption that Russia, France and Britain were going to do the same...
...State Department has not even begun to work out a blueprint on which it can ask Congress for the necessary authority to commit U.S. resources. The only U.S. resources now available are a few hundred millions in the War Department appropriation to provide relief in the U.S. zone this year...
...Blueprint for Federation. The Anglo-U.S. Cabinet Committee on Palestine, which had been conferring in London for two weeks, came up with a proposal: Palestine should be "federated" into three parts, Jewish, Arab and British controlled (see map). The Jews would get about 15% of the country's 10,400 square miles, the Arabs 40%, the central government (i.e., British) the remaining...