Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Washington heard reports that U.S. officials in Germany had found, in a transcript of the Molotov-Ribbentrop talks that preceded the 1941 German attack, a blueprint of Moscow's plans. Molotov wanted the Baltic states, all of Poland she then occupied, slices of Finland, eastern Rumania, complete control of the Dardanelles, a free hand in Iran and Iraq, and enough of Arabia to dominate the Persian Gulf. Ribbentrop thought Russia asked too much...
...though the Navy had been able in some part to avoid the Army manpower crisis, it had its own troubles. Its blueprint for a postwar Navy of 551,880 officers and men, with a 108,000-man Marine Corps, had been shelved by the Senate Naval Affairs Committee until after the atom-bomb tests. Its $6-billion budget for fiscal 1947 had been cut by $2 billion...
...days the United Nations turned a blueprint into a going concern. Fifty-one nations, spanning the gamut of race, color, language and tradition, had to concur. They did-with ultimate unanimity. How long and with what travail would it have taken Congress to complete a comparable task...
...Navy was the first to show its blueprint to Congress. Last week it unrolled a colossus-sized plan to keep 1,079 ships (half as many again as the combined navies of Britain, France, Russia and Italy), 30% of them in service, 10% in ready reserve and 60% in a "mothball fleet." It wanted dozens of bases fanning out from the U.S. coasts into both oceans. It wanted 500,000 enlisted men and 58,000 officers (including 8,000 officers, 100,000 men in the Marine Corps). The cost was as eye-straining as the size: $5 billion next year...
Applause. Energetic Wilson Wyatt, 40, had drawn his blueprint in five fast weeks. He had come to Washington virtually a stranger-a corporation lawyer whose only experience in public life had been gained as mayor of his home town, Louisville, Ky. But by virtue of driving himself all day and half the night he had managed to discuss and argue his theories with scores of Administration officials, men in labor and industry...