Word: dovetailing
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Twin Pillars. EDC is designed to dovetail the armies of Western Europe so that none can be easily withdrawn for aggressive adventures of its own. This is a more complicated ambition than simple rearmament; the result is a complicated blueprint. At the top, EDC will have 1) a Council of Ministers, 2) an 87-man Assembly, 3) a nine-man Commissariat, serving as a six-nation general staff. Together, EDC and the Schuman Coal-Steel Plan will form the military and economic pillars of a still more visionary federation: the U.S. of Europe...
...Boshell, who unscrambled one of the biggest omelets in utility history as liquidator of Standard Gas & Electric (TIME, Nov. 17), putting together LeTourneau's earth-moving business and Westinghouse's railroad equipment made plenty of sense. Like his other buys, LeTourneau's earth movers dovetail nicely with Westinghouse equipment. By purchasing LeTourneau's major assets, instead of its stock, Boshell also increased his depreciation base by $18 million, will thus be able to write off half of it against taxes within ten years...
...kind of benevolent chicanery: on one occasion, a touring orchestra wired that it expected to rehearse the next day-at the time already scheduled for another rehearsal. Totten thought hard, arranged for the vans with the incoming instruments to break down just long enough for him to dovetail the schedules...
...Canada's lower tax rates (52% maximum v. 69% in the U.S.). For its part, Simpsons will benefit from Sears's vast retailing and merchandising experience, which has developed such cost-cutting methods as bulk buying and close cooperation with manufacturers (TIME, Feb. 25). The two partners dovetail in another way: Simpsons' mail-order business has always run two to one in favor of clothing, draperies and other soft goods, while at Sears the ratio has been reversed in favor of major appliances and other "big ticket" items. Simpsons-Sears's first catalogue, due in January...
...driven away to Siberia. They sat him on a plain stool while relays of examiners interrogated him day & night until his head was splitting and his splayed buttocks a mass of burning pulp. After a week of this, Weissberg "confessed"-a ticklish job, because his "crimes" had to dovetail exactly both into the "confessions" of his "accomplices" (i.e., his arrested friends who had incriminated him) and the overall plot requirements laid down by G.P.U. planners...