Word: developed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ideas and to get them "off the page and into the reader's mind." Hadden was also highly competitive and vastly ambitious: he planned to make a million dollars by the time he was thirty. But once he has said this much, Busch proceeds to embellish rather than to develop his story. And his occasional efforts to probe deep frequently border on the ridiculous. "The urgency of Hadden's impulse toward life," he writes, "started with his original struggle to stay alive in the first place." This "struggle" took place when "little Hadden" was between one and six weeks...
...says McNarney, the U.S. will presently develop a fighter that can lick the B-36. Soon thereafter it will have a bomber (probably the Boeing long-range, all-jet XB-52) that will be better than the B-36. Other nations, presumably, are working along the same lines. No one is sure where the advantage will rest when the new airplanes appear...
...experts are agreed on one point: the next war in the air will not be fought with the tactics or weapons of the last one. Given a few years to develop weapons now in the experimental stage, airmen will make the aerial gunfights of World War II as obsolete as cavalry raids...
...best prepare its students to fulfill these responsibilities the Business School tries to develop four characteristics in its men, the report went on 1.) The ability to work with people, 2.) The ability to make sound decisions in the light of available facts and under pressures of time, 3.) the ability to draw upon a fund of knowledge and 4.) the capacity to integrate those three abilities...
...more than 115 million ton-miles last year. The potential amount of U.S. air freight, said CAB last week, is more than one billion ton-miles per year, or more than eight times as much as all airlines are now hauling. The cargo lines had promised they would develop the business if given the chance. Now it was up to them to make good...