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Word: blueprint (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manpower, problem, of the gas and oil mixup, of racial disputes, of censorship and news dispensation. In Congress, politics played havoc with such measures as the lowered draft age and the tax bills. On the education front, college officials raised their voices in a pleading chorus crying for a blueprint from the War Manpower Commission, and Washington answered with equal vehemence that the job should be done by the colleges. Enticing reserve plans were set up by every branch of the armed services, colliding with the necessity for drafting married men to build a 10,000,000 man army. Statement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: After a Year | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...road. Naval victories in the South Pacific, the successful invasion of Africa, increasing bombardment of German and Italian factories, show that at last we have taken the offensive. Slowly the manpower tangle seems to be nearing solution, nation-wide gasolenc rationing has finally been imposed, and the blueprint for colleges is apparently ready...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: After a Year | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...their blueprint for peace, the Catholic Bishops also spoke in unprecedented language. Chief recommendations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catholic Stand | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...after Pearl Harbor to equip them to help the war effort, persuaded the U.S. Employment Service to let him open up class in the defense school at Inglewood High. There he has to date graduated 250 mutes in bench machining, 150 more in machine-shop practices, shop mathematics and blueprint reading. The mutes themselves developed the new industrial sign language they must teach their normal-hearing, vocally equipped bosses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANPOWER: No Noise | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...Department official promised a conclusive announcement in the near future--probably within a week. Meanwhile, as the colleges wait for the long demanded blueprint fitting them into their place in the fight for their existence, and for all that they represent, the advice to students of the War Manpower Commission is to continue studying...

Author: By Dan H. Fenn jr., | Title: Wartime Education Subject Of Conference at Capital | 11/17/1942 | See Source »

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