Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's navies obsolescent. It was the first true submarine: it went faster under water (25 knots) than on the surface (10 knots). It was able to overhaul any but the fastest surface ships and was capable of days-long submersion. Fortunately, this triumph of naval design came too late. When the war ended the only pilot model was on her trial...
...first commercial transport which Convair has sold, is still in the design stage, will not be ready for delivery until 1947. It will be a short-haul, 40-passenger plane in the 300-mile-an-hour class. Unusual features: specially designed engine exhaust stacks which will provide jet assistance; passenger entrance near the nose through a door with a built-in ramp. With the 240, American Airlines hopes to make a "good approach" to 3?-a-mile air service...
Plant before Design. In the Oak Ridge plant, 6,000 centrifugal pumps were needed which would send a viciously corrosive gas through pipes. There was no time to design such a pump, then tool up a factory to produce it. So Allis-Chalmers took on the job of building the factory first, tooling it up and training the workers, then waiting for the pump to be designed...
...Work for Congress. Repeatedly, industry did the wildly improbable. For example, G.E. built instruments to detect leaks and tell how fast, and in what quantity, gas was going through the pipes, by merely attaching an instrument to the outside. Time & again, companies were asked to design a machine according to a "mathematical formula which they did not fully understand." Out of this amazing gadgetry have already come scores of new products, or processes, which have nothing to do with atomic power, such as new ways to dehydrate foodstuffs...
Then the sisters opened a shop, Elsie designing, Dorothy managing. Impressed again, Lord & Taylor reached out for Dorothy, put her in charge of its Comparative Shopping Bureau. She reorganized it top & bottom, got rid of the dingy "spy system," put in a Bureau of Stylists to help buyers and improve merchandising. Most of all she plugged fashion, at first that of Paris (she staged the first exhibit in America of modern French decorative art). Then she turned her attention from Paris and battled for recognition of American fashion and design...