Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost before the Secretary had finished reading his prepared statement, the U.S. Treasury's design for extracting another $10,500,000,000.00 from the U.S. pocketbook was mackerel-dead. Cried Democrat Robert L. ("OF Muley") Doughton, head of the Ways & Means Committee: "Utterly indefensible." Cried Republican Harold Knutson: "How much of it is for revenue and how much is for politics...
Question in the East. The most immediate, perhaps the most urgent question is: 1) Soviet Russia's military design for victory or peace on the Western Front; and 2) her postwar design for Germany. By a calculated series of statements from Moscow, the U.S.S.R. has cultivated what would once have been denounced as an "anti-Soviet" suspicion-the suspicion that the Red Army may halt its advance on or near Russia's borders and free the German Wehrmacht for the defense of western and southern Europe...
Single-Seat Versatility. In single-seater fighter aircraft, the U.S. emerged as the owner of the most dazzling display of any combatant. Working on the aeronautical axiom that "there is no substitute for soup," U.S. designers got their super-powered (2,000 h.p. and above) craft off the production lines and into action. The result was something more than they expected when design was begun, generally three or four years...
Dauntless (Douglas SBD). This is the Navy's one dive-bomber in wide service up to now. Outdated by later design as of Pearl Harbor, it was still all the Navy had, was still better than anything the enemy could show. Result: a spectacular record of destruction of enemy craft at Midway, the Coral Sea and in all the actions in the South Pacific...
...Ford men who have long espoused the newfangled ideas which old-fashioned Henry Ford has never completely accepted. The three: stocky, balding Laurence Spence Sheldrick, who came to Ford 20 years ago and has long worked as chief engineer; lean, sandy-haired Eugene Turrenne Gregorie, boss of the body-design division; quiet, patient Cornelius Willett Van Ranst, who helped develop the Ford airplane motor which now powers Ford-made tanks...