Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Trial & Error. The Chinese WPB takes advantage of the many trials & errors of the American war production system. By every device Nelson & Co. could conceive, the setup eliminates diffuse authority, parallel agencies, snafuing red tape, all other bureaucratic hindrances to efficient administration...
...method had a cold parallel in the methods of U.S. mass production: interchangeable parts for engines, guns, instruments...
...Third Parallel...
...holed up during the day. ("There was always a tight feeling in our stomachs, and we sat on deck with our legs and arms crossed as well as our fingers".) She "filed her nails over and over again", twice almost to the quick-once when eight Jap warships steamed parallel to their course, again when a Jap cruiser chased them for miles, raced them into a rain squall that saved them by folding them in blackness. They just made it to a friendly port, for as they pulled dockside a piston cracked; their motors wouldn't have turned another...
...years economists talked mainly in terms of the net national income (total of all income of individuals and corporations). But in 1942 the Department of Commerce ran a parallel new figure showing the "gross national product." This was naturally far higher; it included not only the national income but the "unjustified figures," such as depreciation reserves. In fact, it measures the value of U.S. production instead of only payments made to produce it. Said Brookings: "A distorted picture of national expansion has been built up in the minds of the public. One not infrequently reads that the national income...