Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about $1,500,000,000. The Argentine Government, under Acting President Ramon S. Castillo, has done its best to turn an austerely neutral face to the world. But in spite of several stump-toed Nazi plots (including one for German annexation of Patagonia, uncovered in 1939), the only formal action that Argentina has taken against the Nazis has been to order the Nazi Party dissolved. The Party simply took to cover behind German "cultural" and "welfare" organizations...
...SPAB denied National Defense Pipelines Inc. (sponsored by Harold Ickes) priorities on steel plates for a 1,580-mile pipeline from the Texas oil fields to New Jersey. Reason: the plates (at least 430,000 tons) could better be used for ships and freight cars. But no formal vote was taken and the pipeline project was by no means knocked out once for all. SPAB's potent Henderson said afterward that he still favored the project-as do the Army, Navy and President Roosevelt. So Ickes' pipeline may yet cause the first open fight inside SPAB...
...right, and he heard people around him yelling, "Gas, gas," but, unfortunately for him, there was no officer to shout, "By the numbers, gas 1, 2, 3". The Eli was imbued with a strong sense of discipline, and he couldn't see putting on his mask without a formal command. So with a whispered prayer to God, to country, and to Yale he continued to stick it out, like the proverbial lad who stood on the burning dack whence all but he had fled...
...only nine cases, 13% of its formal actions, has it recommended any form of "union security" (by which a company agrees to nurture, sometimes encourage, union membership). In only one instance has it recommended a closed shop: the Bethlehem Shipbuilding case. Its justification: the other 38 shipbuilding firms on the West Coast had already agreed to the closed shop provision of an OPM master contract. In every instance, except one, industrialist members of the panel sitting on the case were in full accord. The exception: Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock...
Saks Fifth Avenue (head designer, Sophie): much ado over Sophie's "plastic seaming," and adaptation of Alix and Vionnet's tiny seams and gores which give a gown a poured-on look; a fitted hiplength, fur-edged jacket after Vermeer; men's tie silk for formal dinner gowns; men's sleeve lining for suit blouses...