Word: framework
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greatest preparation of all was centred around the building for making airplane engines. Over its steel framework contractors had first built a fibreboard shell, so that workmen, sheltered inside, could lay brick and pour concrete through winter weather. Last week the building, almost a fifth of a mile long, was hatching, pink and raw, out of its cocoon. By June, Pratt & Whitney double Wasp engines should be rolling...
Labor. "The true status of man independent of economic progress must find expression in the managerial framework of industry; the rights of labor must be recognized as in principle equal to those of capital in the control of industry, whatever the means by which this transformation is effected...
...hospital, which is being built in this country, will be constructed of prefabricated sections of five-ply building board sandwiched between fire-resistant sheets. They will be bolted in a structural steel framework and camouflaged to match the surrounding terrain...
Last week Japan's New Structure-the national "reform" designed by Premier Fumimaro Konoye-had most of its girders welded. The framework appeared fairly conservative but the only building stocks at hand to complete the structure seemed to be materials of violence, hatred and daring...
Contracts for constructing the interior have not yet been signed. Parkhurst said, because officials haven't decided whether to weld or hold the building's framework. The cheapest method of construction, riveting, has been banned because of the noise, which according to Parkhurst would cause the resignation of every professor working in Widener...