Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point, freezing of design worked on the side of the Germans, who started early with good airplanes, poured them out faster than anyone else. But freezing works against the Nazis now. If they make a wholesale switch to new models, their production lines must slow up. If the Nazis hang on to what they have, German war planes will be inferior. In sum: the Germans, unlike the U.S., can't have it both ways in full degree. The same is also true of the Japs, whose aircraft industry is pipsqueak small...
...British refused to freeze their production, have thus kept quality high, can continue improving design on the cushion of U.S. production...
...There is no one-plane answer to the question: Which is the best airplane? Which was the best automobile: the car that ran 150 m.p.h. on the Indianapolis speedway, the one that hauled coal, or the one that took the family to the beach on Sunday? As the U.S. design and production machine is geared up, each U.S. plane should be the best in its class—and within only a few months...
...Rich in destroyers (171) when the Jap attacked, the Navy is now building more, of the Fletcher class. Their secret design is the answer to the Jap's 2,000-ton Kageros, and his secretly built "cruiser-destroyers...
...despair of soul as well as of mind, it would rank not far below Troilus and Cressida and Journey to the End of the Night among the world's great nihilistic poems. Lacking these, it is a forceful, rather tortured tract, without the complete clarity of design that might make it an instructive parable...