Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...post-war world reached the blueprint stage last week. Britain, Russia, China and the U.S.-the four great Allied powers-had got down to making agreements, not only for the war, but for the peace. At meetings in London and Washington (TIME, June 8) they were speaking to one another frankly and, more important, agreeing jointly...
This cinematic editorial is almost a blueprint of how to make an involved, dull, major aspect of World War II understandable and acceptable to moviegoers. Its scenes are a nicely edited compilation of captured German war films, Allied newsreels, and a few sequences shot by the Canadian Government film unit. The trick is to put the ingredients together to produce a picture like Food...
...have complete WPB authority over what remains of the war-production job. Since most of the expansion was over, rationalization could begin-a grass-roots matter. There could be more subcontracting, a fuller use of existing plants, more local cooperation, less Washington red tape. A blueprint of the new decentralization was shown in the Detroit area last week. Ernest Kanzler, WPB's local headman, sent a deputy to Grand Haven, Mich., to meet with Ottawa County's small manufacturers and expound the gospel of subcontracting. There was the familiar talk about pooling for war work; there...
...secretary, made him Indiana WPA administrator, took him along to the Philippines. When McNutt switched from High Commissioner of the Philippines to FSAdministrator, Coy went along as McNutt's assistant in Washington. There the beautiful friendship broke on the rocks of jealousy: McNutt tried to write the first blueprint for OCD; President Roosevelt, dissatisfied, turned the job over...
...start the great job, the President created a War Manpower Commission. He named as boss the man who had drawn up the first tentative plan: Federal Security Administrator Paul Vories McNutt. And to Manpowerman McNutt he gave an executive order that was a basic blueprint for regimentation-if the demands of total war required regimentation. The 132,000,000 U.S. citizens, unsure and shaken, prayed that Mr. McNutt would use his great power wisely...