Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blueprint expert, Chris Jensen leaves fine details to his staff of engineers and Navy officers, runs the yard and its more than 2,000 workers on a "let's try it this way" basis, hits his best form in emergencies. When the flooded Minnesota threatened to sweep away the big administration building in June, Chris Jensen had 120 jacks thrust underneath, raised the building three feet in twelve hours to let the muddy waters sweep underneath. The office staff kept on working...
TIME herewith publishes the gist of a plan, proposed last week, for U.S. participation in the postwar world. TIME calls its readers' attention to this plan because: 1) it is a specific blueprint, documented far beyond generalities; 2) it is pointed toward next week's meeting of the Republican Postwar Advisory Council at Mackinac Island, Mich., called to formulate an official GOPolicy on postwar affairs...
...have called this blueprint the Zones of Safety Plan...
...least, such a program can measurably shorten the crucial time lag between war and peace production, by making a sizable number of employers blueprint their conversion to peace in advance...
...sharp demands for a second front in Europe, in the official displeasure at being excluded from the Quebec conference, in the recall of Maisky and Litvinoff and the parallel with 1939. Joseph Stalin was saying that Russia does not necessarily have to accept the British-U.S. blueprint for war and peace; that if Russia disapproves the plans of its Western allies, if Britain and the U.S. ignore Russian demands and desires, Russia does indeed have a choice...