Word: coping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue, FORTUNE appraises the U.S. war effort from the point of view of editors to whom the new scenes are familiar, the new faces long known. And the net of their appraisal is that the U.S. is not succeeding in the task of organizing itself to cope with the world of war. They say that it is not mastering the complexity of its industrial life. The U.S. that emerges has shortages in many things-in raw materials, steel, power, transportation-but they argue that it has its greatest shortage in ideas, ideas of what...
...housing than in World War I. Irate Senator Truman deleted these references, also conceded that Congressional politicians had been responsible for some of the mistakes. But, said the committee: "There were very few officers in the Quartermaster Corps or in the engineering corps who were at all fitted to cope with the problems involved in the camp-construction program...
...reasons given for retaining selectees was that there would be serious transportation difficulties getting selectees to and from outlying bases. If our Army is in such a ridiculously poor condition that it cannot cope with the apparently insoluble problem involved in transporting a relatively few selectees to and from some of its own outlying bases, the High Command is certainly in need of drastic overhauling...
...Lord's Acre project may be as modest as a pig-North Carolinian Betty Mae Cope raised one for her Methodist church, netted $15.50-or as big as the planting done by farmers near Hendersonville, N.C., who ran up a whole new $8,000 Baptist church with their tithing. Hendersonville's Baptists raised $2,352 in a single year by the Plan. Men fattened pigs for market or planted extra crops. The men's Bible Class grew potatoes as a group project, made $469. Women gave the "Sunday 5" from their flocks, grew flowers to sell. Children...
Kept in the dynamite box by the Army and Navy for a month, a report to OPM by a committee of 25 top oilmen, released last week, told how the East might cope with Harold Ickes' threat of "gasless Sundays" (TIME, May 26). Chief conclusion: there is a shortage of tankers, which will make the shortage worst this winter, but it will be almost over by next summer. Meanwhile there are ways to alleviate...