Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...auto indus try. Its point was that Mr. Odlum had allowed himself to be balked on writing a subcontracting provision into the tank contract. In so doing TIME'S story failed to give the auto industry the undisputed credit due it as a master of the farming-out method. But it should be pointed out that the fact that 75% of a tank's dollar value comes from outside sources is not the same as 75% subcontracting. The 75% mentioned includes not only parts but "supplies and materials"- the value of all the raw materials (steel, etc.) that...
...concerned because of the Japanese parallel with Hitler's method of first encircling a country he intends to attack. With Japanese-mandated islands east and Japanese land bases west, the Philippines are in a horseshoe open only at the southern...
...headed A BRUTE. One James Wheeler was fined $5 for maltreating his wife. The Tribune story concluded: "A few months' experience in breaking stones in the Bridewell would do this Wheeler a 'power of good' and he ought to have been sent there." McCormick retains the method...
Personnel Department B's special function was "to comb the world for potential 'Quislings.' " Goebbels, with his fat dossiers on the vulnerabilities of all foreign notables, believed that treason was a surer method than revolution. In Belgium, for instance, Rosenberg's Degrelle movement failed; but Personnel Department B obtained the services of Henri de Man, with his influence over Leopold; and Lieut. Dombret of the Belgian General Staff sold Germany Belgium's secret plans for defense long before the war broke out. Agents of the Department-B type also got such unbribable...
...Fradd perfected the use of silhouettes to determine which students were in need of the exercises. The process, later modified by the "shadow graph", spread to all parts of the country. In 1938 the now famous "aluminum pins" were instituted to replace the visual method of conclusion by a mathematical method...