Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian conferences have so struck the hearts and imaginations of churchmen everywhere as did the Malvern Conference of the Church of England, with its bold blueprint for a just and Christian post-war society (TIME, Jan. 20). Last week Malvern came to the U. S. The Church League for Industrial Democracy, the liberal, social-action group of the Episcopal Church, met at New Haven, spent its entire annual meeting discussing the Malvern resolutions in the light of U. S. needs...
...about British chances or fearful of provoking Hitler. Two predicted civil war if the U. S. went to war for England. One, Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison, editor of The Christian Century, most vigorously intellectual Protestant religious magazine, and a leading third-term opponent, said that the bill was a "blueprint for dictatorship," equivalent to a declaration of war; accused the President of scaring the people, and declared: "Such a war will not be America's war. It will be the President's war. America has never fought a President...
...Shoals area, northwest of Birmingham, the Reynolds Metals Co. is building a $23,500,000 aluminum plant and a $17,500,000 rolling mill. Planned for the Republic Steel Corp. plant at Gadsden is a $6,000,000 addition to forge 105-mm. anti-aircraft shells. Also in the blueprint stage are a $12,800,000 underground ammunition storage area at Anniston, a $47,997,000 powder plant and $15,000.000 powder-bag loading plant at tiny Childersburg (population...
Section 11 states that holding companies shall limit their operations to "a single integrated public-utility system." What this means to U. G. I., according to the SEC blueprint, is that it may keep the electric properties of its Pennsylvania-Delaware-Maryland system, will have to get rid of its gas and other properties, including unconsolidated investments (valued at $128,600,000) in other utilities. If the integration goes through as blueprinted, U. G. I. will cast off dominions which produced over...
Regardless of whether the blueprint stands up, its publication made clear that SEC takes Section n literally. It also opened the way for a court test if U. G. I. wants one (the company hinted that it did). Vogueishly invoking national defense to buttress the ruling, SEChairman Jerome Frank explained his commission's broad objectives: "Power for national defense industries must come, in most instances, from hundreds of private operating utility companies which are presently under the control of a handful of holding companies, mostly located in large eastern financial centres. Efficient operation . . . requires an intimate . . . knowledge...