Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rather than dwelling exclusively on any specific blueprint for world federation such as "Federal Union," the speech today will consider the problems and possibilities of world federation as an ultimate means of international political organization...
Pointing directly at the preparation of undergraduates for war work in Washington and in the quartermaster corps of the armed services, the Economics Department has developed broad plans to orient its program to the nation's wartime needs. Although in the blueprint stage now, concrete advancements will be made this summer and next fall...
...ship, according to the Admiral, is like buying a hat. (In Navy slang, tentative ship designs are known as "spring styles.") Before the Navy decided on any one type of ship, the Bureau of Ships whipped up as many as ten different designs. After six or eight months of blueprint work, the designs were sent to the General Board, which eventually notified the Bureau what it fancied. The time between contract plans and working plans used to be from 15 to 18 months. Under Robinson, the time was cut to less than a year. Ably assisting him was Rear Admiral...
...Vultee Aircraft in California has 536 girls (10% of its labor force). It started them filing off burrs, admitted them to training courses, promoted them to machine-shop operation, sheet metal, riveting, blueprint reading, inspection. Now they assemble all parts of the fuselage (but not the heavy engine). They slide under the conveyor; install power lines, electric systems, pedals, control parts; connect oil lines; rivet ailerons and stabilizers...
...country scowled around for a scapegoat. The blistered decks were scarcely cool when New York's tabloid PM released the story of a gumshoe investigation, made weeks before the fire by Reporter Edmund Scott, a story which PM had suppressed at the time because it was "a blueprint for sabotage." Masquerading as a longshoreman, Scott had got a job with a crew hired to lug furniture ashore...