Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Churchill told the purpose of the conference: "We had the idea when we met there, the President and I, that without attempting to draw final and formal peace aims, or war aims, it was necessary to give ... a simple, rough and ready wartime statement of the goal toward which the British Commonwealth and the U.S. mean to make their...
...OPACS' answers to these wails have been either "make formal application to OPM's priorities division" (which virtually means "no") or, especially where aluminum is the vital necessity, a bleak "we cannot undertake to assist you." Sometimes complainers are referred to their local Defense Contract Service organization. Rarely has this resulted in the most logical remedy: subcontracting of defense orders...
...agreement, evidence to the New Deal of Tom Girdler's eagerness to get ahead with national defense, is a formal recognition of collective bargaining procedure, in effect at most of Republic's plants for the last two years. It requires Republic to dispense with elections, accept a certificate by the National Labor Relations Board that C.I.O. has a majority in eleven of the company's 15 plants, including South Chicago. Certificate will be issued after an NLRB check of payrolls against union membership. Other provisions: 1) S.W.O.C. may petition for certification in other plants; 2) workers fired...
...anything brings steel production down, it will probably be a shortage of pig iron and scrap. Pig was close to formal priorities last week, with defense already taking almost all its output. Scrap is short partly because it is under badly adjusted price controls, without sufficient price-incentive to hinterland junk dealers...
Next day, FPC invoked formal power priorities for the first time. The victim was Carolina Aluminum Co., which was ordered to reduce its deliveries of firm power to nearby Duke Power Co., stop drawing down reservoir water, in effect keep its power for itself. To help explain the South's dire straits, FPC had already turned to an old Government scapegoat, Aluminum Co. of America (Carolina Aluminum's parent). Alcoa, said FPC, had too long relied on cheap seasonal dump power. Smart management in peace, this practice now meant that Alcoa had to drain 150,000 kw. from...