Word: depending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They found that the various strands in a bundle of nerves, like the wires in a telephone cable, differ in the impulses they transmit; that individual nerve cells are "like tubular electrical condensers"; that the impulses of pain depend on the tiniest nerve strands...
...small number (probably five to ten) of administrative officers. They will be trained at the WAVES officer-candidate school at Smith College, Northampton, Mass., will then be assigned to assist in general enlistment and training, beginning soon after January 1. The total number of Negro WAVES will depend on the "needs of the service" will probably not be large...
Straddle. Actually the solution to the West's problem of using war-built plants in peace may depend less on WPB or politicos than on manpower. Some 25,000 workers are now trekking from the West to the East every month (TIME, Aug. 21). An all-out campaign might stop this migration-but it might also saddle the West with huge relief bills, if a postwar slump comes. Yet, if workers drift back East, the West may lose juicy civilian orders because it has no manpower to fill them. Western businessmen have found no way to straddle this dilemma...
Many of the details will depend on where U.S. forces end up, what duties they will still have to perform. But the program was sufficiently set to indicate that it will be much vaster in size and scope than any ever established by a post-armistice army (the World War I program gave courses to 230,000, most of whom only attended lectures at their own posts). Included are four types of schools...
...years to come the world is likely to depend on the U.S. as the supplier of radio sets and tubes...