Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Navy announced its first award of the newest U.S. medal, the Legion of Merit, to Chief Nurse Anna Bernatitus for "courageous and outstanding performance of duty during the Manila-Bataan campaign, December 1941 to April 1942." The week before, President Roosevelt had awarded the Legion of Merit to an ally, Brigadier General Amaro Scares Bittencourt, onetime Brazilian military attache in Washington...
...reader, that I made definitely certain statements that I actually made tentatively. The article is in the main all right, but the head-lining is regrettable. People are puzzled enough now without throwing big scareheads at them, especially scareheads that give my guesses an importance they by no means merit...
...found enough power to freeze salaries: henceforth employers will have to ask WLB or the Treasury for permission to give raises-and will have to prove that the increases will not affect the prices of their goods. There are a few exceptions: 1) raises accompanying bona fide promotions; 2) Merit increases; 3) regular raises based on term of service; 4) extra pay under incentive plans to increase production. But no employer can now lift the salaries of his stenographers from $20 to $40 a week just to keep them from moving to a firm which has an established $40 scale...
...contrasted with the production unbalance and "priorities inflation" that Purp and its predecessors brought about, the first great merit of CMP is that every part of a tank or gun or airplane will be assured of the same preferred position in the disbursement of scarce materials. Moreover, if changes in military strategy dictate a change in any armament program, a cutback or an increase can be applied with one fell swoop to an entire program...
...second great merit is that the CMP should enforce real programming (on a quarterly basis) all the way down from the Army, Navy et al to the lowest subcontractor, should halt hysterical overordering in advance of need induced by the old priorities systems...