Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manufacturers did not yet know the good news. But the new bosses of the War Production Board were working out a new plan for the distribution of materials. It was high time, too. Although actual shutdowns of war plants due to nonarrival of materials have been few and relatively brief, many a plant manager has been kept on tender-hooks.* Few are the war plants which have had enough materials to run at full capacity-50%, 60%, 70%, 80% is more like it. Even though Purp is done for, the mess that it made of materials distribution may be felt...
...straight-faced OWI press release last week was the first public sign of a war production scandal that has long seethed underground in Washington. The brief announcement said only that Colonel Charles R. Baxter of Army Ordnance had been made Chief of a new Materials Redistribution Branch of WPB, successor to the Inventory & Requisitioning Branch. But it meant that after ten wasted months the U.S. was finally going to do something about frustrated freight...
From a student to an expert on studying techniques--and back to a student again--is the brief history of Lt. C. Gilbert Wrenn, author of a number of books on studying technique, and now a member...
...some 18,000 feet, the Jap planes looked like tiny match sticks. They dived for the Yorktown's heart. Every gun of the carrier and her escort began to blaze. Tiny planes hesitated in their dives, made brief flowers of flame, fell into the sea. But a few kept coming at the Yorktown. The bombs slashed through the decks, started fires over the fuel tanks and magazines. Life rafts, splintered boxes, wrecked planes showered about the ship...
...Miss Beatty dictates for half an hour to one of the "angels" (secretaries) who handle her voluminous mail. At breakfast, she confers with staff members, collects ideas from Husband Bill, her No. 1 legman. Grabbing a cab at 10:30, she reaches the studio in time for a brief powwow with program guests. After the program she goes to teas, movies, dinners, the theater, often gets home past midnight and soaks up more information by reading in bed until...