Word: memoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slew a red-tape dragon last week. The dragon was called "layering." This is how it worked: if a toiler in WPB's vineyard wanted to get in touch with an Army procurement man, say, he was expected to write a memo which filtered through layers of top executives up and over to the War Department, down through layers again to the procurement man he wanted to reach. Then his answer would boggle back through the same layers, days or weeks later, smothered with seals, O.K.s, stamped approvals and question marks. Henceforth he had WPB and Army instructions...
...weeks ago, while the riveters still rang their tattoo on Massachusetts' steel sides, Rear Admiral Samuel Murray Robinson wrote a memo to his boss on the progress his Bureau of Ships had made. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox was so pleased that he had it fattened out with more facts and figures, gave the memo to the U.S. public...
...your subscribers read that memo in TIME...
...believe I have missed an issue of TIME from cover to cover since it first appeared. This issue is something. You hit the tops I think. Yes, I have heard about that exciting memo you sent to the staff, how you had to make waste paper out of the Emir and the wonderful follow-up of last week's Zamzam with this week's Robin Moor...
...gloom; production was beginning; but politics was being produced faster than ordnance (see p. 14). OPMites could see a nightmare vision of a day when Knudsen would be merely a wandering figurehead of good will, visiting factories and making Rotary luncheon talks; when Sidney Hillman would be a memo-writing figurehead, representing labor conciliation...