Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They also made Aniline's wheels go round. Already harried by Government prying, Aniline protested that now its actual operations would be hampered. Those operations include much vital war work: 90% of the khaki dye for U.S. uniforms, Agfa Ansco films for Army & Navy, Ozalid blueprint paper & apparatus for many a defense plant...
WASHINGTON--The nation tonight was given glimpse of a gigantic military blueprint which will double the war strength of the Army to 3,600,000 men this year and include vast expansion of mechanized ground forces and an air corps second to none...
What these people want is not the imposition of our principles and beliefs, but the right to their own. They don't want and they won't take our blueprint of the future. It's foolish of us to think we're going to force it down their throats. Practically speaking the only basis for a settlement in Central Europe is a code of international morality which guarantees the rights of these countries to whatever government they choose--Russia to communism, Poland to despotism, Czechoslovakia to democracy. We'll get a lot further in working out this code...
...pitfalls for such a venture are numerous. First, the planners will be tempted to devise an over-all blueprint, after a certain amount of study, and turn into a pressure group for their own beliefs: Harvard has had some particularly illuminating experience with pressure groups. They fall to pieces after a flashy start; they dissolve when their small aims are accomplished or when they despair of their big aims; or the members part at a political fork in the road. Definitely, the Post-War Council must avoid over-organization; it must preserve its balance and entertain all viewpoints. The second...
...reality of the summer session as an emergency measure to get the boys their sheepskins by drafttime. As a means of speeding up the educational process and at the same time reducing costs, the three year plan is a noble idea, and the Faculty has drawn up its blueprint with the details complete to the last French reading exam...