Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many people of the Western World. But we do recognize them; we do not pretend that our failures were decreed by historical necessity; nor do we rewrite history according to the percepts of Doublethink to prove that they never happened at all. What we have to offer is a method and the freedom of mind that makes the method possible...
...some 15 years behind crusty old Oscar Edwin Hewitt, Ed Kelly's - and Chicago's - commissioner of public works in the '30s. Oscar, a onetime Chicago Tribune reporter, kept tabs on the popularity of radio programs by the drop-in-city-water-pressure method. The end of a broadcast Joe Louis fight called forth the mightiest efforts of Chicago's Lake Michigan intake stations. Especially if the fight went the route...
...Faith & Method. Production Man Wilson was different from his predecessors because he brought to the Pentagon the essence of large-scale management, the faith and methods of Detroit. To the Pentagon bureaucracy, ignorant of Detroit and instinctively hostile to its methods of command, much of the Wilson approach was new and surprising. For example: where many Washington executives like to inflict upon their subordinates the unsettling experience of hearing the boss's voice come out of empty air, one of Wilson's first acts was to order the "squawk box" moved out of his office so that...
Rain Unmaker. New Jersey's Palisades Amusement Park has asked Professional Rainmaker Wallace E. Howell (TIME, July 24, 1950) to try to keep rain from falling on the park. Howell's method will be similar to that used to make rain (seeding clouds with silver iodide), except that he will overdose the clouds in hopes of making the water particles too tiny to fall. Estimated cost for rain-stopping from June 1 to Labor...
...made so many commitments--down payments on contracts and such--that we can't call the thing off now. It's on, come hell or high water," O'Connor said. He also denied any knowledge of possible changes in the method of choosing future committees...