Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, War Secretary Stimson declined to say what effect Army occupation would have on management's status beyond: "We want to get this plant . . . to producing ten planes a day again. . . . All the rest is mere detail." Temporarily, at least, it appeared that the Army had simply assumed North American's personnel problem, would let management continue to boss production...
...stories which follow this one detail some of the more interesting medical news which came last week out of Cleveland, a city overrun by suave, quiet, greying men, most of them in white shoes and snappy summer suits. They were 7,256 members of the American Medical Association, who gathered from all over the U.S. for their annual convention. If they were no better looking than run-of-the-mine conventioneers, they were definitely better behaved. Although the hotels were so jammed that latecomers were happy to get berths on an old lake steamer, the sessions were sober and earnest...
...Zimmer, Mann owed more than his plot. From his Maya, a translation (into German) of a gigantic compendium of Hindu mythology, Mann took detail, background, much, very likely, of his philo-symbological machinery. It is Dr. Zimmer too who best summed up this novel: "It is as if Hindemith composed a one-act opera, availing himself of the motifs from The Twilight of the Gods...
Bowden Broadwater's story, "Several Blots on the Family Escutcheon," is an amusing account of domestic disaster in the genteel atmosphere of the best residence of a southern city. Mr. Broadwater's interest in decor is always a pleasure to come upon, and his use of this kind of detail here is very successful. If it sometimes seems that he conceives of his characters as mere extensions of decorators' fashions, that is at least a novel way of conceiving of characters; and in this story it is most appropriate of the several devices which characterize Broadwater's original satiric tone...
...neither for sale nor for rent (nor free). Instead they will be occupied and eventually paid for under a system devised by ingenious Colonel Lawrence Westbrook, special assistant in Federal Works Agency. ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, hailing the plan as the most promising housing idea in years, describes the workings in detail in its June issue...