Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tram-mick) is a Polish factory community entirely encircled by Detroit and submerged by politics. Hamtramck's manners are Old World; but its morals have produced more political scandals than any city in Michigan. Mayors have become convicts; ex-convicts have become Congressmen. Once Hamtramck boasted a model school system which some optimists thought might save the place...
...crude, primitive atom bomb that wrecked Hiroshima had the force of only 20,000 tons of TNT. The Nagasaki and Bikini bombs, not much improved, are called "Model Ts" by atomic experts. Last week in Manhattan, before a conference of 250 U.S. mayors, Major General Harold R. Bull, attached to the Army General Staff, hinted at something bigger & better: a bomb equivalent to 40,000 tons of explosive. Apparently an improvement of at least 100% is already...
...probably not telling the whole story. Early, inefficient bombs released only about 1% of the "fission energy" of their uranium or plutonium. Bull's better bomb may have raised the figure to 2%. But without any new principle, a bomb can be 50 times as powerful as the model the general hinted at. One such bomb, skillfully placed, could do a Hiroshima job on all of Greater New York...
...Models & Trends. The big jobs came. Invited to discuss alterations for Bullock's, Inc., they spoke so convincingly of a store "that would work like a machine" that they won the job of building Bullock's new Pasadena branch. Their brash argument: as they had never planned a store, they couldn't palm off an old plan. They built a scale model because "most people can't read blueprints or understand dimensions from sketches." After they got the contract they studied merchandising at Bullock's for a year before drawing final plans. They planned...
...this fall, holding its nose, and would not be likely to continue within a Democratic Party increasingly controlled by city bosses or respectable cronies--and jostled by ominous rumblings from the South. Whispers of a new party in January, or in 1952, built around the British Trade Union Congress model so strikingly duplicated in ADA, crackled through the convention before adjournment. There was substantial feeling that in the long run only one course could whip the devil and escape the rushing waters of the deep blue...