Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill was loosely drawn; it also contradicted itself. It forbade strikes in war plants, yet set up a legal method for voting on strikes. It would not simplify labor relations: unions would have to tell their troubles to WLB, NLRB and Labor-Secretary Frances Perkins. It might wreck WLB: a section provided that no member of WLB shall have "a direct interest as an officer, employe or representative of either party to the dispute." Would this disbar WLB's four labor members, who are members of A.F. of L. and C.I.O...
...British medical officer reports curing 1,000 cases of scabies (itchy skin infestation caused by barely visible burrowing parasites) by painting patients "from neck to soles with a 20% benzyl benzoate emulsion." He claims his method is faster and cheaper than the classic system of baths, sulfur ointment and sterilization of clothes and bedclothes. Only 0.92% of his patients needed a second coat...
...Pont's process, now used in all hexamine plants, combines liquid formaldehyde and liquid ammonia to form hexamine by a secret method. The solution is then passed into an evaporator, where it is boiled down into crystalline form. This substance is dried, ground and shipped in powder form to explosives plants. Said a Du Pont worker: "We never see the finished product. But Hitler does-plenty...
...most serious problem was that Consolidated built hulls faster than it could get turbines to power them. He persuaded the Maritime Commission to lease the Long Beach municipal docks, and he moored completed hulls there. When the turbines arrived he devised a brand-new method to install them through the ship's sides. Another timesaver: giant "bathtubs" at Maywood give Navy self-propelled landing boats complete dock trials, uncover bugs within handy reach of a wrench. A third trick: when Kaiser's Fontana steel plant needed a blast furnace in a hurry, Alden Roach built him one (Consolidated...
Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, Method ist, had the delegates in to tea, praised the work of missionaries in China...