Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Head of the biggest U.S. naval architecture firm (75% of all U.S. ships, merchant and naval), designer of the method of mass-producing Liberty ships, nine months ago Gibbs was drafted by WPB to head up the country's cargo shipbuilding program. Dour Designer Gibbs unwillingly went to Washington. There he ran head-on into the Maritime Commission which, with an eye on a postwar merchant marine (TIME, Aug. 23), had its own pet shipbuilding program'. Standardizer Gibbs hurled himself into battle. When he left Washington: ^ Merchant-ship types had been reduced from six to three, of which...
...Italy could be seen on the tenth day. Of the losses, of the deeds done and the blood shed-of the things that made the battles real to the righting men-the official accounts and the correspondents had told very little. But something could be told of the German method of defense, the immediate Allied method and aims, the tremendous consequences of the Allies' mere presence in Italy...
Early in the Tunisian campaign the U.S. Medical Corps was still using the old treatment-hospitalization, long rest, etc. Only 2% of the patients were able to return to combat duty. Then U.S. doctors tried the quick method. Now at forward battalion aid stations they urge nervous cases to talk out their fears. If the men are exhausted or hold back their stories, they get barbiturate sedatives to quiet them and loosen their tongues. Once their story is told, most nervous cases feel relieved and, after a few days' rest at evacution hospitals, 60% are ready to go back...
There were no casualties at the battle of Duck Hill. But the Army could not underestimate its significance, for there are many Duck Hills around the big Southern camps. At Duck Hill, short years back, two Negroes had been lynched by a particularly ugly method: blowtorches (TIME, April...
...rays) that would enable soldiers to see objects at night but be invisible to the enemy; an improved means of signaling the identity of ground troops to friendly planes and vice versa; a simple, harmless process for darkening metals, especially aluminum, so that they will not reflect light; a method of waterproofing vehicles so that engines will not stall when they ford streams; an inexpensive, durable metal for soldiers' dishes; a means of absorbing or eliminating poisonous carbon monoxide (apparently a substantial problem to soldiers .working around motorized equipment and plane hangars); new methods of sabotage...