Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Board's method would require all war industries to hire labor only through the U.S. Employment Service. The USES would not place men in new jobs solely because they want more pay. Actually the order would deprive no man of his right to quit, but if he did quit be must look for work in nonwar industries, thereby losing his deferred draft status. In short: work or fight-and work where...
James Finney Lincoln is the biggest maker of electrodes and welding equipment in the U.S., and he likes to intone that "the labor cost of any product can be reduced to zero" through inciting workers to make continuous improvements in production method and design...
Postponed until the end of the war is development of the newest and most novel method of fertilizing with nitrogen: use of gaseous ammonia (NH3) - a discovery of Shell Chemical Co. The gas is allowed to escape from steel cylinders into irrigation waters, where it dissolves and is carried into every part of California or chards, rice fields, truck farms. These un usual amounts of quickly available nitrogen cause the plants to grow with startling speed. Ever since Shell's cautious introduction of this gaseous fertilizer, growers' demand for it has far exceeded the supply. But now Shell...
...second group he treated by a method often tried on pilots who have crashed. He made the cats "break through" their phobias by forcing them to eat, in much the same way that a cracked-up pilot is sometimes forced to fly again. Cats handled pilot-fashion not only overcame their fright but turned into daredevils, learned to enjoy blasts of air with their dinners...
...Said CBS President Paley: "The propaganda method of democracy is to tell the truth...