Word: framework
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese were last week clamping a chill pattern of subjugation over the still-warm framework of military conquest. All the world knows that Hitler's European New Order is failing. It will be a long time before the world knows how Japan's New Order will fare in Asia, for the Japanese have a genius for suppression. But by last week two facts began to glimmer through the huggermugger murk: 1) the Japanese were stealing everything in sight; 2) they were treating prisoners surprisingly well...
...problem in such places as the AC Spark Plug in Flint, which has employed women for years, easily converted men & women alike to machine-gun making. Briggs Mfg. Co. in Detroit simply took women from the upholstering department, taught them to put fabric on bomber wings and rivet framework...
...course reading, the traditional individual supervision and discussion probably cannot continue. But by some method of small group meetings, such as the very successful inter-departmental conferences held in Eliot House this year, the hours of these hard-pressed professors and instructors would be judiciously used, and the basic framework of tutorial would be retained. Students of all rank groups should be willing to do a more evenly standardized volume of work with the possibility of a two-course reduction reward. This scheme is a deviation from tutorial as we know it, but it would meet the basic problems...
Within the next fortnight the President will go on the air with a talk to the nation. He is expected to speak bluntly, mapping a broad campaign to curb inflation, asking Congress for the laws to make it work. The framework of the plan was already settled. Main points...
...this by abolishing the General Staff's once-cloistered War Plans Division (headed since December by Eisenhower) and replacing it with Operations. As a section with much wider functions, Operations will coordinate the Army's global fighting problem, will lay out the framework of force needed to meet the enemy, wherever he is. Operations will also be the Army's (and Air Force's) link with the U.S. Navy and with a new brain child of George Marshall, the Combined Chiefs of Staff of the Allied Nations (TIME, March 30). For such a job Army...