Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus the Allies were beginning to cash in not only on a pursuit aircraft that was untried a year ago, but on a U.S. theory of design: long range for fighters. In support of ground troops this quality had been proven dramatically only a fortnight before. Without the range built into U.S. single-seaters Lieut. General Mark Clark's Fifth Army, which got fighter cover on the beach at Salerno, would have had a tough go of it. Without it, the probability is that the landing would have been made farther south with less decisive effect...
...this expert on manures, markets and mortgages who had the late Joseph Urban design a pioneering example of modern school architecture for the New School...
...Boats. The LST, 327 ft. long and 5,500 tons, is really a medium-sized freighter whose bow gapes open like jaws to discharge cargo. Developed late in 1941, the vessel was a peculiarly tough problem in design, since it had to be capable of carrying and loading hundreds of tons of tanks, seaworthy enough to cross oceans under its own power, shallow-draft enough to put the tanks directly ashore. It carries a full operational crew and is usually commanded by a senior grade lieutenant, Navy or Coast Guard...
Next came a 16-point resolution, setting a frame for a new economic design and defining the types of industry which after the war shall remain in private hands. State and private ownership shall go hand in hand, the Kuomintang decided, with monopoly-type industries and utilities falling to the State, while "industry which may be entrusted to individuals or which will be less suitable for the State to operate shall be privately operated...
Said he: "The idea and design of the memorial are being submitted for the approval of the American people. It consists of an exedra and pedestal surmounted by a figure of Peace . . . backed by an illuminated cross...