Word: haphazard
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...sweater-and-skirt-jammed auditorium of Alumnae Hall went simply mad about Wellesley's Junior Show which made its solo appearance Friday evening. Burlesquing everything from "The New Yorker" and Knittin' for Britain to the WAVES and the 11:50 train, this haphazard musical may not stand up under critical scrutiny, but it more than served its purpose of entertainment...
...need for a unified, administrative agency with full authority is vital and immediate. At present WPB allocates only to those mills who can't get scrap--other mills buy what and where they can. With capable direction, industry-wide allocation of scrap could be substituted for the present haphazard system. Systematic requisitioning of all possible sources of steel could augment the current scrap collection. Robert Moses, ex-director of the New York City scrap drive, has developed the possibilities along this line with his recent detailed estimate that fifty thousand tons of unneeded steel construction exist in that city alone...
...contracts run for two and a half years, include all Lend-Lease needs and all the trucks the Army expects to use in a "reasonable war period." Now manufacturers can lay out longterm, sense-making production schedules, standardize operations and parts, avoid the waste and confusion of numerous small, haphazard orders...
...most chaotic and haphazard phase of the entire war manpower problem has been the training and procurement of specialists at the college level. While the plans of the armed-forces for training line officers are still uncoordinated, they at least follow the definite outlines of the reserve programs. But not even such simple directives have been worked out for procuring the much needed engineers, physicists, chemists, and men who can speak Russian and Japanese...
...foremost assayer is bellicose Bernard DeVoto (Mark Twain's America, 1932). As custodian of the Mark Twain Papers, Critic DeVoto has been busy since 1938 panning through an immense, theretofore jealously guarded mound of pay dirt: Mark Twain's letters, notebooks, manuscripts. Much of this haphazard heap is just rubble. But some of it is ore that assays high. And it contains clues galore to the size & shape of Mark Twain's talent, his working methods, the ambiguities of his mind and spirit...