Word: blueprinter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blueprint for U.S. redeployment calls for an army of 6,500,000 men to defeat Japan. That means discharging only about 1,500,000 men, one third of whom are already unfit for further military duty anyhow. It calls for a small force to police the U.S. share of occupied Germany, moving most of the U.S. forces now fighting in Europe to the Pacific. They would probably be staged through the U.S. ( the most direct route) in time to arrive at their new front in fighting trim...
China is still too busy pitting flesh & blood against a mechanized enemy to set off any fanfares about her postwar business plans. But China is looking to the future. From Washington this week came news of one blueprint already completed: a full-blown, carefully planned program for a five-year plan of industrialization...
...lemoncholy dean of radio comedians, in Manhattan after completing a movie (It's in the Bag), uttered a few characteristic words about Hollywood. Actors? "Covered with hollow honors. Texas Rangers, Kentucky Colonels, Boston fire chiefs. . . . Why, I've met Rangers who couldn't get on a horse with a blueprint and two osteopaths." Actresses? "Chambermaids with caps on their teeth ... figments of their pressagents' imaginations." California? "If you're an orange, it's ideal...
...quieter passages, they make rather a good thing of it. The fustily ornate interiors of the mansion, with their finely caught gloom even in bright daylight, are exciting without help from anyone. Yet Dark Waters fails because its story, its characters and its scarey ideas seldom get beyond the blueprint stage. In this kind of melodrama, which depends strongly on atmosphere and psychological overtones, absolute belief is indispensable. Sample oversight: the failure effectively to suggest the peculiarly oppressive, damp heat of the locale...
...peace. But it was also, above all, a vote for the Commander in Chief. The U.S. appeared satisfied with his management of the war and with what they knew of the decisions made at the major strategy councils. His administration had held the inflation line, had helped blueprint the miracle of war production. On the record, the U.S. had decided that it was no time for a change...