Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...creating a socialist government to carry on the struggle. We must win the war first, says Laski, because any great change would wreck the war machine, and without victory over the external enemy, both socialism and democracy would be lost. He answers those who are calling for a complete blueprint of British war aims by pointing out that with events so completely in flux, the most that the British can do is to define the criteria on which their specific aims will be based, and this they are doing...
Skeptical gallerygoers realized that the ballots, too, were a dream, that Los Angeles was likely to remain its sprawling self for years. The city has a backlog of traffic-routing plans that have never got past the blueprint stage. Of its present city planning commission's 100 miles of projected parkways, 15 miles have actually been completed. New congestion caused by the mushrooming of airplane, shipbuilding and other defense industries is keeping the planning commission's hands full. The authorities are already frightfully busy now trying to keep bad from becoming worse...
...suit of overalls has among its beauties those of a blueprint: and they are a map of a working man." After a while "the edges of the thigh pockets become stretched and lie open, fluted, like the gills of a fish. . . . The texture and the color change in union, by sweat, sun, laundering . . . into a region and scale of blues, subtle, delicious, and deft beyond what I have ever seen elsewhere approached. . . . [The shirt] breaks like snow, and is stitched and patched . . . and stitches and patches are manifolded upon the stitches and patches, and more on these, so that...
...Supply Priorities & Allocations Board did something last week which, if done sooner, would have saved the U.S. defense program months of bewilderment, bogglement and bickering. To its executive director, Donald Nelson, it assigned the all-important, first-things-first task of drawing up a program blueprint...
Coupled with SPAB's inventory survey (TIME, Sept. 8), the new blueprint of requirements should provide the first full answer to the question of what the U.S. has and what it needs. Last week SPAB further improved its inventory survey: it wangled a promise from the Army and Navy to release the same type of information which is demanded of industry. This will enable SPAB either to relieve or to remedy businessmen's growing suspicions that the armed forces are the worst hoarders...