Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gela: "Loss of the planes was 'one of those things' that will happen in a highly complicated operation . . . that could only be explained adequately by giving a blueprint of the plans. . . ." The General cited commanders' morale: "" . . Continual harping on ... error will destroy boldness. . . ." (The Gela blunder was kept in General Surles's censorship bag for eight months, popped out only after a staff sergeant, back from the front, opened...
...each of these battles Voronov helped to chart the blueprint, for he was now a member of the seven-man Supreme Command. Each blueprint gave his cannon an honored place. But Voronov was now more than an artilleryman; he was a top-rate, all-round field commander...
...make matters worse, it became apparent that Baruch, Hancock & Co. had inadvertently offended another potent political force. Their warmhearted words about "the human problems" of reconversion contained no mention of consultation with labor, no specific recommendations on dismissal pay for workers, etc., though it did contain a detailed blueprint for paying off war contractors...
Because Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch has an almost mystic reputation as the Man Who Can Solve Anything, the Baruch Report issued last week was widely and wrongly billed as a complete postwar blueprint. This impression was reinforced by its sheer bulk: 120 mimeographed pages, 30,000 words, one pound...
Last week Washington put its shoulders to the job of getting industry out from under. After weeks of delving, Senator Walter F. George's Postwar Committee presented a detailed blueprint of the job to be done and how to do it. Most significant (and debatable) point: Congress, not the Administration, should run the job of reconversion...