Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of all he liked flying, and when in 1934 the Army adopted his pet project, a survey of Alaska (Mitchell: "Who controls Alaska controls the Pacific"), Hap Arnold led the survey flight. That flight won him the Mackay Trophy for the second time and put Hap Arnold near the top of the Air Corps, with the rank of brigadier general...
...House guillotined a Roosevelt pet: the Civilian Conservation Corps...
...which would have kept CCC going another year. For good measure they gouged some $100,000,000 out of an appropriation for the National Youth Administration, left NYA only some $50,000,000 to carry on its defense-worker training. NYA is somebody else's pet: Mrs. Roosevelt...
...Busch and his Chamber Players; Columbia; 4 sides). A puzzler even to musical savants of the 1820s, the granite-surfaced "grand fugue" which Beethoven composed as a finale to his String Quartet B Flat so irritated audiences that his publisher persuaded him to write a simpler finale, issue his pet fugue separately. Now recognized as a titan among fugues, it comes to life eloquently, pulsingly in the first album of Violinist Adolf Busch's reorganized chamber musicians, who made their U.S. debut earlier this year (TIME, March...
Since 1934, Lincoln Electric's own operations have been a case history of James F. Lincoln's pet theory. With sales ballooning from $4,273,000 to $24,189,000, and profits rising more slowly from $1,403,000 to $2,583,000, he raised his incentive bonus payments from 10% of net to 80%. This system is worked in conjunction with low base pay compared with going rates for the trade, so as to permit the company-in James Lincoln's words-to "skate through a tough period without going broke." Nevertheless the average worker...