Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bari: "The Germans tried a new method of attack to evade radar . . . blew up two ships filled with ammunition, causing great damage. . . . German reconnaissance the next day had no idea of the extent of the damage. . . . There was an immediate job to be done in harbor clearance, reorganization of radar and fighter coverage before ordinary security would allow them to know the extent of their operation." (The U.S. press got its first news of Bari 15 days after the attack...
...been estimated. . . that enough shipping space has been conserved by putting this new method into practice to account for the movement of one Liberty class cargo ship sailing continuously for nine months without ever putting into port...
...submit," concluded De Golyer, "that whether or not objections to the present enterprise, its initiation, or method of handling are valid, it was conceived, as one editor put it, 'in the interest of national security and for no other purpose...
Three years ago, he had to expand his Sav-Way Industries. As he started to build a new plant, WPB banned steel construction. Saffady got around this. He bought quantities of secondhand pipe, worked out a method of welding it into girders, built his own plant while less ingenious folk sat and grumbled. When he found it impossible to buy vitally needed internal grinders, he designed and built his own. They worked out so well that, at $5,900 each, he has already sold...
...keep his mind sharp. Once he was badly pinched for a special steel to fill an order for tank axles for an auto company. The company had steel, but warned Saffady that it did not meet the specifications. He bought the steel anyway, worked out a new method to process it, and sold the steel back-in axles...