Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press conference in London last week, reporters shot straightforward questions at T. V. Soong, China's sturdy Foreign Minister. Cosmopolite Soong, brother of Mme. Chiang Kaishek, answered in plain English. Result: a broad-scale, official blueprint of China's postwar policies...
Bill Jack's plant is not a place where a pin could be heard to drop. It has been described as "a blueprint for bedlam." In the movie, when Jack & Heintz workers arrive on the job, a voice announces over a loudspeaker: "All aboard! Next stop Berlin!" Promptly workers grab their tools, create a strangely realistic din which represents a train leaving a station, putting on steam, finally roaring along at breakneck speed. When workers get down to work, they do so to the crash of jazz-band disks. Girls keep time by wiggling their hips on their stools...
...none of these things have progressed beyond the gleam-in-the-eye stage, and the above isn't even at attempt at a blueprint. It's simply what might happen if things work out nicely. No one has had time to do any real planning yet, because of the press of other duties, but two weeks time should see a good deal settled, or at least on that blueprint stage. At the end of his week, the V-12ers will have been classified as a result of the physical fitness test they will have taken, and that program will...
...Blueprinter. Baruch's master blueprint for industrial mobilization brought order out of the war's early confusion. As all-powerful chairman of the War Industries Board, he established the first wartime priorities system for materials and labor, set up production schedules, cut down civilian industries...
...National Jewish Hospital in Denver teaches blueprint reading, drafting, precision instrument work and other non-strenuous industrial jobs to arrested tuberculosis cases...