Word: mesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snag. Not so easy was the search for a camouflage covering which would be nonreflecting and flexible, yet would take paint so well that the flat-surface buildings, roads, trees, rocks painted on it would trick the eyes of Axis airmen. The company finally hit upon 1½ in.-mesh poultry wire, to which chicken feathers are glued with an asphalt adhesive. Because feathers are tough to handle, stick together on damp days, swirl around in the smallest breeze, methods and machines had to be devised to handle them. A special plant was designed to make the wire...
...slaughter, the good cows mostly to neighbors; heifers-next year's cows-are being sold for beef at fantastic prices. Results: fewer cows were milked in October than any other time since 1933; production per cow this autumn fell 1% from last fall; farmers are squeezed in a mesh of prices, wages, labor shortages...
...really transparent plastic window pane, which will withstand the explosion of a 150-lb. bomb eight feet away, has been developed by Monsanto to end the danger of flying glass during air raids. The pane is made of 16-mesh wire screen sandwiched between two sheets of cellulose acetate plastic. It can be easily mounted in standard window frames...
Solution by Battle. Before Donald Nelson even knew he was in a fight, he had nearly lost it. He sent some of his top men over to the War Department as civilian advisers, to mesh WPB's production program with Army procurement. They did not stay civilians long. Instead of molding Army policy, Nelson's men were molded into well-tailored Army uniforms. General Somervell put the good men to work, boxed off the bad ones. In a matter of weeks, he was head man of production and Nelson had a row of empty desks...
...cotton, unlike industry, these worlds are not so very different from each other. CCC men believe that win-the-war policy ought to mesh as closely as possible with win-the-peace policy. For the present, the job is to see that no Good Neighbor sags in its economic joints through loss of its export markets to war. Afterwards, the grand strategy will look something like this...