Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blueprinter. Baruch's master blueprint for industrial mobilization brought order out of the war's early confusion. As all-powerful chairman of the War Industries Board, he established the first wartime priorities system for materials and labor, set up production schedules, cut down civilian industries.
Around us, the demonstration was going full blast. The tow planes had swung back overhead and were dropping more paratroops. The sky seemed to blossom and fill with 'chutes, white for the men and bright colors for specific types of packed equipment. Several other wrecked gliders were lying on...
To stern critics of the cinema Coney Island will be just one more tin bead on the rope Hollywood never ceases to string. But cinemaddicts who pay to get in will go easier on it; in fact they will go for it. Many cheap baubles have lovely sides in certain...
San Francisco longshoremen got a break last week. While waiting for jobs, they could loll around their homes, get their assignments from the radio. Hitherto they had had to keep telephoning hiring halls to find out what was up-their vital war work suffered from a lot of telephonic confusion...
Benign Elmer Davis, OWI director, addressing the American Newspaper Guild convention at Boston this week, said Washington news is "less adequately covered than any other news in the world." The American war machine is now "rolling," he said, "but many people in this country seem unaware of it." He implied...