Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with CMP. By September, WPB hopes to have industry shifted from producing for a two-front to a one-front war. By then, it hopes that most materials will be so plentiful that it can drop the Controlled Materials Plan completely. All that industry will have to worry about will be a simple priority system for war orders and essential civilian production...
...rule. He followed his exquisite sensations wherever they might lead him; personal excess was his right. Poet Baudelaire managed to combine all the ideals: he smoked hashish, lived with Negresses, wrote brilliant, sensual, satanic poems. But, as an aristocrat, he dressed immaculately in the British manner and learned to drop phlegmatic monosyllables out of the corner of his mouth...
Saint Nazaire by the Germans." Another tells how "we were chased from our place in Normandy in June 1940 and reached this village with our last drop of gas. Here we have been ever since, except for the four months I spent in an internment camp." Still another who served on the Maginot Line was taken prisoner by the Germans but finally escaped to fight with the Maquis and work with the French underground...
...Henry L. Stimson, able, ancient (77) Secretary of War, has planned to retire, may drop out soon after V-E day. His successor: question mark, so far as political gossip went. One gleam in Washington eyes: General George Catlett Marshall, with General Eisenhower the new Chief of Staff...
...speed things up, WPB will loosen the Controlled Materials Plan, which now straitjackets industry. Eventually it will drop it in favor of a simple system of priorities, controlling only such materials as are needed...