Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million to 26 million tons a year. Loss of ships (11,643,000 gross tons between September 1939 and January 1944) and the demands of war manufacturing were the main reasons. In five years, Britain's arsenals had produced 35 million machine and submachine guns, each far more complex than the rifles of earlier wars. Aircraft factories, which built only 41 heavy bombers in 1940, the year of the Battle of Britain, were building them at the rate of 5,800 a year in 1944. (The manufacture of ammunition, Winston Churchill rejoiced to note, was up to all foreseeable...
...France is the warden of the great interests of civilization. . . . France is and must remain a great African power... . We have no reason to feel crushed by an inferiority complex which might lead us to consider our country an appendix to other states...
...Science and Industry (see cut), anybody at all could see it free behind a rope at a Wall Street War Bond show. But not even a spying engineer could learn much from this glimpse. The instrument, which contains some 2,000 parts and costs nearly $10,000, is so complex that, although a number of the sights have fallen into enemy hands, its inventors are confident that enemy technicians can not duplicate it in time for World...
Less Profit. OPA Boss Chester Bowles admitted all this as he gave out OPA's new plan. The complex pricing system on infants' and children's inexpensive clothes will be reduced to a dollar-&-cents basis which any housewife can understand at a glance. Furthermore, manufacturers will get a smaller percentage of profit as the fanciness of the finish increases. Thus, the incentive will be to turn out cheap instead of expensive goods. Bowles estimates that this will save consumers $17,000,000 a year on cotton goods, another $21,000,000 on rayon. And it will...
...hopes, no one can say. For although specific standards of material and workmanship were set for the first 30,000,000 children's garments which will be made under the new plan, enforcement is probably tougher in the textile industry than in any other field.* A complex business, its operators can weave in & out of regulations as deftly as a shuttle on a loom...