Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than a year, with victory in sight, the U.S. had maundered about the size & shape of its postwar fighting forces; now it was time to get set for a sound decision. Last week the U.S. Navy laid down a blueprint of what it thought the forces afloat should be for the next few years...
Foreseeing the argument ahead, Jimmy Forrestal let it be known that the blueprint was no hard & fast plan; everybody would have a chance to make his case. Navy flyers and battleship men alike hoped that the prospect of weapons still to be built would not talk anybody into sinking the fleet or any part of it. Plain citizens who remembered the scrapping of some of the best of the fleet after World War I would agree with them...
...President named none. But a postwar blueprint of U.S. needs in the Pacific has already been drawn. It envisions five main land, sea and air establishments, plus a ring of satellite bases...
Besides these mainstays, the blueprint calls for a network of secondary bases crisscrossing the Pacific: Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Eniwetok, Kwajalein, the Palaus (all paid for in U.S. blood); eastern Samoa, Wake, Midway (already U.S. possessions) ; Truk and Manus...
Shortly before he died, Franklin Roosevelt asked Dr. Vannevar Bush to blueprint a new deal for U.S. science. Last week the chief of the wartime scientific high command dropped his blueprint on President Truman's desk. The plan, drafted by Dr. Bush and four committees composed of leading U.S. scientists, would require the Federal Government to spend some $122,500,000 a year to support basic scientific research and the education of young scientists...