Word: duction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...principal mine-operating subsidiary of Dominion Steel & Coal Corp. Ltd. ("Dosco"), which controls 90% of Nova Scotia's coal pro duction, besides the steel plant at Sydney, where iron ore from Newfoundland is reduced...
...replace Ray Rausch, Bennett protege (Rausch was shunted down the ladder to handle "new construction"). An oldtime automan, Bricker first went to work for Ford in 1904, left, then came back again for good in 1914. When World War II began, he was given Ford's toughest pro duction nuts to crack - antiaircraft guns, plane motors - and finally, Willow...
When the Battle of the Bulge knocked all reconversion plans galley-west, WPB's "spot authorization" plan for civilian pro duction was one of the casualties. The plan, which had started up a trickle of new civilian goods, was summarily choked off by the Army demands. Last week, WPB decided that the time had come to put the spot plan into full operation again. This meant that, as fast as plants finish up their war contracts, they can get into produc tion on a limited number of civilian goods...
...doubled its estimate of the amount of steel which can be used for civilian production in the first big cutback period, the first quarter. There may be 3,000,000 tons - enough to start mass pro duction of cars, refrigerators...
...announced agenda was a discussion of "the areas of responsibility among fed eral, state and local governments." This might have sounded like a flossy intro duction to Old Guard complaints about states' rights. But Tom Dewey was thinking beyond this. In the first place, he wanted to establish clearly that there are a great many real conflicts between local and federal policies, from taxes to high way building. Second, he wanted to show that most of these conflicts are highly in efficient, that they cost U.S. citizens mil lions of unnecessary dollars and thousands of hours of unnecessary legal...