Word: blueprinters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, all the predictions were pure guesses. This was made plain by Army Secretary Frank Pace Jr., who said that it was not yet possible to provide a broad blueprint of what military requirements were going to be for fiscal 1951. Without such a blueprint, no one could tell how big the arms burden would be and what controls would be needed...
Tammany's cigar-mouthing regulars had been confident that they could capture New York's City Hall just by looking pious and letting nature take its course. Their blueprint for victory was simplicity itself. A disciplined Tammany hand named Vincent Impellitteri, who became temporary mayor after Bill O'Dwyer's hurried resignation, was to smile frequently, keep his mouth shut, fight down ambition, and step back into obscurity when Tammany...
...financial blueprint for a North Atlantic army began to take form. After four days of high-level haggling in Washington, France and the U.S. reached agreement on what the French would get in U.S. arms and money during the coming year. No specific overall figure was set down, but the understanding is that France (plus Indo-China) will receive between 30% and 40% of the $6 billion appropriated for MDAP...
...doctors and psychologists, they subjected the boys to physical examinations, studied their homes and school records, questioned parents and teachers, gave their subjects batteries of tests. By the end of their study they had produced no rule-of-thumb cures, but they had worked out an impressive statistical blueprint for spotting danger signals...
...other. But the last time he called his daughter in the U.S. from Tokyo, the conversation didn't go according to plan. Matters plainly of inconsequence drifted in from the Tokyo end. Later, Peggy found that her father, despite all his planning, had lost his copy of the blueprint for the call...