Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shoeshine was intended as a furious and moving indictment of a postwar society, and of a world, in which such things could happen. It is all of that, and more. It makes the oversimplified diagnosis and prescription of most social tracts look like so much complacent blueprint. It is filled, in every scene, with an awareness of the pitiful complexity of the causes of even simple evil. The jailers, bureaucrats, magistrates, lawyers and priests who are cogs in the machinery of destruction are savagely caricatured, but each one of them is presented with compassion and understanding, as well as rage...
Double-Barreled Approach. The job of drawing up a solution and selling it to Congress next January would fall to the new, top Air Policy Commission.*Already in the blueprint stage is a program sketched in by the services, the State Department, the Civil Aeronautics Board and ACC subcommittees. Its goal: a new production minimum, which would probably run to 40 million pounds of airframe a year. Its double-barreled approach: 1) to move all first-class mail and parcel post by air; 2) to help airlines buy the new planes necessary to carry the load with federal loans...
...community as the church of the Middle Ages. In the "beloved fellowship" of Christians living, working and playing together, he sees the all-important matrix of spiritual life, and within this group relationship he apportions the church's liturgy, recreation, social work, preaching and prayer. His blueprint for his True Church is not mere speculation; many of the specifications have been met in his own grey limestone, suburban First Community Church of Columbus...
...scientists, engineers and military men in general. . . . Although the problem of propulsion is generally more advanced than that of guidance and control, it is by no means [true that] "Power supply is no problem." The suggestion that "Bat" and "Loon" are the only guided missiles to have passed the blueprint stage is not quite correct. There are several projects that have entered the test phase, but of course no elaboration on any such projects can be given because of the security regulations vital to national defense. The conservative and factual presentation made by TIME is representative of the high type...
...these were brought into prospect by the Marshall suggestion. Europe had a chance to work out a blueprint of how the U.S. could save Europe whole-which would cost the U.S. much less than trying to save it piece by piece...