Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Failure to appreciate the gravity of our situation ... is evidenced by the coal strike, the Akron strikes and other stoppages . . . and by the tendency of certain manufacturers to divert too much time, thought and energy to the design and development of competitive civilian nonessentials. . . . The failure of May production is the most critical single occurrence in the Army Supply Program. . . . Failures to meet production in one month cannot be readily made...
...were the only two who answered, and Bantam received an order for 70 vehicles. The cars were promising but too light, so the Army increased the weight to about 2,200 lb., asked Bantam. Willys and Ford Motor Co. to build 1.500 each of the new cars. The Willys design was selected and the company was given a fat order for 16,000. To assure two sources of supply, Willys was instructed to turn its design over to Ford for manufacture. Bantam dropped...
...expressed the opinion that no single fighter plane could claim absolute superiority in the air, with the increasing specialization of plane design producing different planes for specific types of missions...
...Norman Rockwell, son of a New York agent for a Philadelphia cotton-goods firm, studied for a year and a half under Anatomist George Bridgman and the late Thomas Fogarty at Manhattan's Art Students' League. He worked a few months more at the National Academy of Design. That is all the formal art training he ever had-all, for his special abilities and purposes, that he ever needed. At 17 he was doing illustrations for St. Nicholas, Boys' Life, Youth's Companion. In 1916, just as he reached his majority, he also reached the cover...
...they formed a trusteeship for their newborn enterprise, christened it the All-American Girls Softball League. To run its affairs, Wrigley hired the Cubs' former assistant general manager, curly-haired, canny Ken Sells. To round up talent, he released Jimmy Hamilton from his job as Cub scout. The design of a suit able uniform he put into the capable hands of famed Poster Artist Otis Shepard, who is responsible for famed Wrigley pixies, car cards, and glamorizing of Catalina Island...