Word: overhaul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comptroller Kohler was a natural for the assignment. A 55-year-old Michigan-born accountant (from Tom Dewey's home town of Owosso), he first stubbed his toe on Government brass as a World War I quartermaster officer. His persistent attempt to overhaul the archaic accounting methods of the sprawling Chicago quartermaster's office caused a ruckus that brought him to the verge of a court-martial. But the quartermaster general took one look at Kohler's suggestions, ordered them adopted on the spot...
...Overhaul the standards which the motion picture is applying to family living. . . . Altogether too many films give the impression that nothing happens socially in the United States without the aid of alcoholic beverages...
Last week, the Burma-Vita Co. was freshening up its fun for motorists. It had completed the big job of selecting 25 new jingles from the 50,000 which amateur versifiers submitted. And it started repainting its 40,000 signs, in the first complete overhaul since 1941, with such deathless new lines...
...long-term problem which is getting his close attention is labor's so-called Magna Carta, the Wagner Act. Ball would overhaul it. He believes that jurisdictional strikes should be outlawed; that unions as well as employers should be required to bargain; that certain legal reforms are in order...
...long statement on Mexico's oil problem last week, President-elect Miguel Aleman omitted such comments but hinted that mismanaged Pemex was due for drastic overhaul. It was gossiped that Pemex was losing $100,000 a day; it teemed with high-salaried, incompetent political lame ducks; it was constantly in trouble with labor. And in eight years it had failed to fit the oil industry into the domestic economy. It was still geared for export. Its pipelines ran down to the sea instead of to home markets in the big inland cities. A new refinery outside Mexico City would...