Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friend Pete Newell's defense came Admiral Land, hard-working believer in Navy traditions: Pete knows how to construct destroyers; South Portland is not the only example of bad management in the Liberty ship program; there is too great a dearth of first-class shipbuilders to warrant a drastic step...
...ideas of John Locke and on the other hand the reactionary counter-revolutionary attacks of those who have tried to cripple the growing influence of the common man. We must solve the conflict with modern guns and ships and planes. Then we must stand by our promises and resolutely construct machinery which will perpetuate our military victory. And, finally, we should do our share to make the new mechanism work by breathing life into it, and adapting it to changing situations so that, like our Constitution, it will last, though man's ideas and institutions radically change...
Originally called the Office of Technical Development, OPRD aims to: 1) provide Nelson with data on WPB's technical problems; 2) pass on suggestions which come to WPB through outside sources; 3) farm out experimental work; 4) when necessary, construct full-size pilot plants. Working on industrial problems, it will parallel rather than supplant the Office of Scientific Research & Development, which is concerned with research in munitions and war weapons...
Fourteen days from keel laying to delivery date is indeed a record of which American shipbuilders can well be proud. This seems a far advance from the 47 years required to construct the U.S.S. Alabama. Originally intended as a storeship, her keel was laid at Portsmouth, Va. Navy Yard in 1817 but not until April 23, 1864 was she launched. A record of 47 years under construction...
Homemade Telescopes. Many amateur astronomers are not only celestial geographers; they are mechanics with a startling knowledge of optics. They have to be, because many amateurs (partly from thrift, partly from preference) construct their own telescopes. Some of them are extremely powerful. Nearly all are highly ingenious...