Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personnel, 30,500 in 1938, up to 550,000 by Aug. 1- greater than last year's average in the steel or automobile industries. And if Detroit's assembly-line methods are barred to them, planemakers have a trick or two of their own. One is the "breakdown" policy of James Howard ("Dutch") Kindelberger, onetime chief engineer for Douglas and now president of North American Aviation, Inc. (former General Motors subsidiary). Until recently airplanes were assembled like ships. But Dutch Kindelberger, who speaks of his job as "a manipulation of shortages," saves North American...
...considerable number of able boys who are unable to go to college at all because of limited financial resources or who can obtain a college training only by an excessively heavy burden of outside work, which often defeats the purpose of attending college and frequently leads to a breakdown in health. It is hoped that through these new arrangements Harvard College may render a useful service to the community by widening the opportunities of education regardless of residence, birth, and financial circumstances...
...General John Metaxas, Premier of the Greeks, who had made a monkey of Benito Mussolini. Another was Britain's Union Leader Ernest Bevin, who became a tower of strength in Britain's Government, who rallied Labor to Britain's cause, who became a symbol of the breakdown of class distinctions by which Britain achieved a new unity to fight her battle...
...Maugham added a warning of his own: The trouble with France was that family ties, especially between mothers and sons, were too close. This unhealthy condition, said he, contributed in no small measure to France's moral breakdown and final defeat...
...left the theatre in a condition bordering on nervous breakdown. I felt as though I had been subjected to an attentat, to an assault, but I had no desire to throw myself in adoration before the two masters [Disney and Stokowski] who were responsible for the brutalization of sensibility in this remarkable nightmare. . . . A supreme insult to the composers. . . . The perverted betrayal of the best instincts, the genius of a race turned into black magical destruction. ... If the man [Beethoven] who turned against Napoleon had lived to see the inside of a Nazi concentration camp his torturers might have driven...