Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department, down through layers again to the procurement man he wanted to reach. Then his answer would boggle back through the same layers, days or weeks later, smothered with seals, O.K.s, stamped approvals and question marks. Henceforth he had WPB and Army instructions to use a simple little method: pick up a telephone, get his man right on the wire...
Died. George Shiras, III, 83, naturalist, "father of wild life photography"; in Marquette, Mich. He discovered a successful method of taking flashlight pictures of wild animals, for more than half a century photographed them in wildernesses from Hudson Bay to Mexico...
Giant U.S. Steel Corp. last week announced that it would soon perform a near-miracle: save critical tin supplies, make better and cheaper tinplate at the same time. The miracle-worker is a new process which plates by the electrolytic method instead of the old-fashioned dip method. To do the job, Big Steel is dishing out $15,500,000 of its own cash for new plants & equipment at Pittsburgh, Chicago and Birmingham. Besides this, the company is installing six new lines to treat black plate (i.e., thin steel plate) chemically. When lacquered by can-makers, chemically treated black plate...
During the winter, with quick, massed attack impossible, the porcupines were very hard to take and, as long as they resisted, Russian advances around or between them were vulnerable. The Russians found that guerrilla warfare between the quills of the porcupine was the best striking method. Russian communiqués, with nice understatement, referred to the quills as "inhabited localities...
...measure." In other words, they would like an anti-lynch measure forced upon the South much as Prohibition was foisted upon the nation at large during the last World War. This would dangerously split the country. The South should not be pampered on this matter, but the method being used is highly dangerous...