Word: lag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result, according to a Bendix spokesman: "The new compass will not go off its reading when the plane dives or climbs rapidly ; it will not lag or overshoot during a turn, and it will not oscillate or hunt back and forth in rough weather." It is also usable in regions where a magnetic compass breaks down completely-near the North & South Poles. Because of the weak magnetic currents there, a magnetic compass is useless within 1,200 miles of either Pole; the new compass, much more sensitive, works as close as 300 miles...
...least, such a program can measurably shorten the crucial time lag between war and peace production, by making a sizable number of employers blueprint their conversion to peace in advance...
Admiral Horne and his boss were well-intentioned; they were merely doing their salty best to carry out the new official Washington line against "civilian complacency," one of the causes of the current grave lag in production (TIME, July 26). But many a citizen was bound to recall the strange contrast of Admiral William F. Halsey, who predicted, in a whoopsadaisy mood last January, that he could see U.S. troops marching into Tokyo by the year...
...okayed an increase in the work day from eight to ten hours, but its membership voted it down. This jeopardized a stopgap measure Phil Johnson was promoting: a five-hour shift for housewives to cover the gap between two ten-hour shifts. Probability: Flying Fortress production will continue to lag...
...been diagnosed-new bottlenecks developing as materials and skills were spread thinner, new breakdowns suddenly occurring because men and machines have for months been working at fuller capacity than ever before, absenteeism. But regardless of the cause, the U.S. will have to work harder to overcome the lag in production. Good news from the battlefronts must not be allowed to become bad news for the war effort...