Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the U. S. rearmament program was still largely in the blueprint stage. But up & down the economy, certain factories, from steel to handkerchiefs, were beginning to stir to the increasing drum roll of orders, real and promised...
...business to become visible. But the first impulse of many a U. S. businessman was to get liquid and cancel his commitments. A selling panic hit the stock and commodity markets. But Hitler's victories also started a U. S. National Defense boom towards the blueprint stage...
...years have passed, and Lowell House has been under construction ever since. Not the kind of construction that requires cement and brick and glass and paint. Not the kind that requires the architect's blueprint. No new wings have been added, no new stories have been built. But Lowell House has become more than a mere dormitory; it has become an institution with its own tradition, its own spirit, its own way of living...
Next step will be to put Odlum's blueprint to a vote. On his part Odlum intends to let Atlas preferred stockholders vote on the deal in a separate election instead of with the common as the Delaware law allows, so that they .will have an opportunity to reject it without having their votes outnumbered by those of the common...
There are systems and systems, some bad, others not so bad, but since the Yardlings are in such a dither, it might help them to have a working blueprint that at least may bring some improvement. First, the Union Committee's experience and knowledge might be put to use by having them nominate men for specific jobs. Then the class can vote on these men, not for vague prominence as figureheads, but for the downright drudgery of running the Smoker and Jubilee. Both these steps would help get the best men for the jobs, and would let the class...