Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spring came with all the familiar sights and sounds of peaceful generations. The ten acres of White House lawn turned green overnight; gaspowered, rubber-tired lawn mowers began to whir over the sward's long roll, barbering the Kentucky bluegrass to the regulation two inches. A man painted the tennis-court backstop; other men with shears trimmed the California privet hedges in pyramid style...
...shape. The most leather-lunged glass blowers could turn out no more than 800 bottles a day. Then one of them named Michael J. Owens, even longer on brains than on wind, built a machine which produced 30,000 a day. His invention made glassware a mass-production industry overnight. It also molded one of the tightest patent controls ever known in U. S. manufacturing...
...over the U. S., manufacturing towns were changing overnight under the impact of orders for defense; in Army camps the first 128,000 drafted men were in training; the U. S. armament program was in second gear-and only the White House knew how well or how badly it was going. Beyond U. S. borders, beyond the Western Hemisphere, events hung in the balance from Ankara to the borders of Indo-China-but only the White House knew how greatly U. S. action could affect their outcome. The President had long, since stated to the U. S. the meaning...
...contract signed last week calls for a loading station adjacent to the Government's Du Pont-built smokeless powder plant in Childersburg, Ala. (TIME, Feb. 17). Through a wholly-owned subsidiary (Brecon Loading Co.) set up overnight, Coca-Cola will spend $1,091,000 on equipment, use the rest for operating expenses. As for profits, Chairman of the Board Robert Winship Woodruff (whose experience with gunpowder has hitherto been confined to his notable quick-triggery in the hunting field) explained: "We don't expect to make any money...
...manufacturing establishments in other States was declining, the South's total increased slightly. (Among the newcomers: kraft pulp & paper, soap, building materials, chemicals). The South already obtains 260% more wealth from its factories than from its farms. Even if defense does not complete the industrialization of the South overnight, no one could doubt that it would give a push in the right direction-the direction in which the South was already going...