Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special assistant to Secretary Stimson, then made Assistant Secretary of War for Air, he found what he now fondly calls "a hell of a mess." To Bob Lovett, more than any other one man, goes credit for unifying the Air Corps, giving it a chance to design and buy its own equipment for its transformation from Army stepchild to Army mainstay (TIME, Feb. 9). He launched the big bomber program, mapped the worldwide network of Army airways under the Air Transport Command...
Even after the sculptor is selected and his final design approved, Bishop Noll will have to solve at least one more problem before he can see his statue completed: where to find enough bronze to cast it. But the Bishop is somewhat comforted by the thought that the plaster figure will not reach the casting stage until...
...necessary because the two-cycle diesel cannot be reversed, without heavy reverse gears. Like the light diesel engine, variable pitch marine propellers have baffled naval engineers for many years. Reason: the hub mechanism, which changes the pitch of the blades, broke down whenever the propeller churned the water vigorously. Design of the tough, new propeller, which is electrically controlled, is a military secret...
...with all German modes of war, Mot pulk was not new in its elements, but in its design and use. The Germans, who once scorned weight and mass for the lighter, faster Panzer technique, had now gone whole hog for mass. So had other armies. The achievement of Hitler's Chief of Staff Franz Haider was in giving his mass a speed and flexibility which in pace rivaled his 1939-41 Blitzkrieg...
...have now reached the point in the mobilization of our people where we cannot increase production by cutting our civilian consumption. But we can improve production by better planning, better design and greater openness of mind...