Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Motors called on Du Pont to devise a cheap, quick method of manufacture. Kinetic Chemicals was set up in 1931, with Frigidaire the one & only customer. Gradually, other manufacturers began to eye Freon respectfully, began to design their machinery accordingly. By the time WPB called a halt on electric refrigerators early last year, all but two U.S. refrigerator makers were using Freon...
Transportation: Trucks and other motor transport were lagging. "Certain design problems" were still holding up large-scale armored-car deliveries...
...Charlotte Evac is a desperately efficient place these days, but its person nel still finds time for a little fun. Right now on the ground outside the surgical tent are two neat patches outlined in white pebbles and decorated with a heart-&-arrows design that says: "Lieut. Ferry man, Miss Guyett, Ward...
Whether by chance or design, many of the U.S. troops who barged into Sicily could speak Italian. For the benefit of those who could not, the Army was ready with a neat paper handbook and guide to the language, not designed to offer a complete course in Italian, but to enable any soldier to ask ordinary questions, order a meal (and pay for it), read street and highway signs, ask directions...
Likable, leathery "Slutsie" McCain is a good officer; in the Bureau of Aeronautics he has done a good job of supervising pilot training and the design and delivery of planes. He has listened to the argument of younger officers that unfettered air attack can blast the Jap out of the sea. Sometimes he has taken their advice. But airmen point out that McCain was 51 and 30 years a Navy man before he won his wings, and that he has held air commands only since 1936. Not even the appointment as new Chief of BuAer of Rear Admiral DeWitt...