Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost every country had its blueprint. One of the best was Fomento's (Chilean Government planning and financing corporation), sparked by vigorous Oscar Gajardo. Fomento had already spent $110,000,000, expected to put $140,000,000 more into economic landscaping this year. Its comprehensive plan reaches from steel to oil, from cattle to fish canning...
...Congress acts, the Army & Navy are ready. They have a blueprint for training the nation's 18-year-olds, in greater detail than has yet been announced...
...battleships, carriers, cruisers, destroyers, destroyer escorts and submarines-represented 496,994 tons, or 46% of the Navy's combat force at the time of Pearl Harbor. The great majority (144) of the supporting vessels lost were bow-ramp landing ships and craft which did not exist, except in blueprint, when the first bombs fell...
...This blueprint was yet to be worked out and approved in detail. But the starting principles had been agreed on: the four zones would exchange goods and services; Germany would be allowed a limited, rigidly controlled import-and-export trade...
Given all the breaks, the Allied Control Council would have to blueprint a miracle. By decree of the Big Three at Potsdam, the Council must destroy Germany's war potential without destroying her ability to subsist. It must select and encourage industries which do not make a war potential (in the long run, most industries do). It must calculate a minimum economy for Germany, and take steps to hold Germany to that minimum...