Word: framework
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five years ago Holiday Inn was a musical note in Songsmith Berlin's melodious mind. He wanted to drape a Broadway show around a series of songs for U.S. national holidays. Holiday Inn provided him with the right framework. According to its episodic plot, Singer Crosby turns his rural retreat into a roadhouse on every holiday in order to make country life pay, and to give himself and Fred Astaire a chance to sing and dance...
Also may I point out to the Crimson the part which Harvard and other lawyers are taking in the preparation of contracts, legislation, and regulations which are the very framework within which our war effort operates. Men able to see through to the essence of confusing regulations and complicated legal problems are sought eagerly both for corporative practice and for vital jobs within the war machine itself. A few of these jobs are: 1) Judge-Advocate branches of the Army and Navy which enforce and maintain military discipline. 2) Army and Navy supply branches to negotiate contracts and interpret regulations...
...first novel by a former U.S. reporter in Japan about reporters, small-time samurai, international traders in pre-Pearl Harbor Tokyo. The story: an American newspaper man and a beautiful little Japanese girl cannot marry because the girl's father says no. Arbitrarily attached to this framework, like seaweed to an empty oyster shell, are some filamental anecdotes about Japanese officialdom and Tokyo's foreign colony. The characterization is stiff, the local color dim. This is that book all newspaper men are going to write instead of hanging around in bars. It might have been a better book...
...training schools, speeded development work (especially on the famous Boeing Flying Fortress), hotfooted after new business. When in May 1941 President Roosevelt announced the super-duper heavy-bomber program, Phil Johnson was right on the ball, gave Air Chief "Hap" Arnold a four-point program which is still the framework of the $3 billion-plus U.S. bomber program. Soon he had snagged a whacking slice of the whole schedule for his own bombers...
...scientists last week admitted that one war is being lost-this year the 58 U.S. varieties of termites, frail, pale, ¼-inch-long insects, will destroy some $50,000,000 worth of property (by boring into and eating the wooden framework of buildings), and almost nothing can stop them...