Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another early-bird in subcontracting was Engineer Morris Llewellyn Cooke, onetime protege of famed Frederick W. ("Speedy") Taylor. Cooke thinks that the defense effort should extend even to the home, points to the British "bits and pieces" system which spread aircraft production to 6,500 small shops. But neither Cooke's writings nor the Treckers' barnstorming have yet produced large-scale results. Trecker himself estimates that more than 45% of the nation's defense capacity is still idle...
...Hauser, the typical Japanese is a "nervous, emotionally high-pitched, sensitive person ... a poor man in a poor country" unable to break through the manners and social limitations of the "oldest totalitarian system on earth." His legendary imitative talents extend only to the materialistic trappings of other cultures (his "Westernization . . . has reached its climax already"). The "die-easy" liberals within Japan's congenitally feudal society have lost faith and hope-seeking to fuse two irreconcilable attitudes toward life, they "forgot to give liberalism to the people." Though Japan may never return to a point where, as in the last...
...preparation. In German, Italy, and Russia the prophets got their gospel across, with results that must by now convince even retired admirals and artillerymen. But in this country, as in England and France, army and navy opposition blocked the full development of aviation. so this book, to a large extend, is Major Williams thumbing his nose at the admirals and generals...
...does the U.S. neutrality patrol extend...
...told reporters that U.S. patrols were operating 2,000 miles at sea. Fortnight ago Mayor LaGuardia, as U.S.-Canadian Joint Defense Commissioner, said they were operating 1,000 miles off the coast.) The President said estimates were meaningless, as they depended on where you were measuring from; he would extend the patrol to whatever limits he felt necessary for defense of the Western Hemisphere. He added significantly that, although the Neutrality Act barred merchant ships from the combat zone, U.S. warships were free to enter the forbidden waters...