Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Herbert Hoover: "We must start our thinking with a disagreeable, cold, hard fact. That is, the economic measures necessary to win total war are just plain Fascist economics. . . . We want to so design our actions that these Fascist economic measures are not frozen into American life...
...that the automakers mass-produced for a mass market, the planemakers tapped and tinkered for the carriage trade. Even with billions of war orders on the books, the aircraft makers have only partly changed their methods. One reason is that the Army and Navy won't completely freeze designs. Even after the design of his own B-25 bomber had been "frozen," said Kindelberger, 15,000 blueprints were changed, 4,000 parts were completely redesigned. Snapped he: "Talk about freezing plane designs is as silly as freezing the design of a flintlock rifle when the enemy is turning...
...striking design for the post-war car has already come from Manhattan's Raymond Loewy, who once called the egg the "functionally perfect shape, the symbol of progress." Abandoning the egg for some-thing closer to a motorboat, French-born Designer Loewy would fashion his car of light, unpainted alloys, plastics, nonreflecting glass. With a liquid-cooled engine in the rear, he would leave the present-day hood as a concession to popular taste, a storage space for tires, battery, air-conditioner. The undercarriage would be faired-in (streamlined). Doors and windows would operate by push button...
...more have been authorized, but not announced. Actually, many more are being added. Carriers on the ways before Pearl Harbor were of radically improved design. Two passenger liners were rebuilt as carriers. In 1943 more carriers than battleships will certainly be commissioned...
...that Corps members may wear "inconspicuous" makeup, may wear civilian clothes on leave, will wear girdles if they bulge unmilitarily, will not be disciplined by confinement in Army guardhouses. As to the all-important uniform, prospective WAACs sighed with relief to find that the Army does not intend to design it. Miss Dorothy Shaver, vice president of Manhattan's Lord & Taylor, has charge of that momentous problem. Permitted to watch, as Mrs. Hobby was crisply sworn in, was Mr. Hobby. Said Reporter George Dixon of the New York Daily News: "If ever a man looked...