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Word: planless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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During 1948, U.S. television showed every sign of being a young monster. In one year, TV's formless, planless growth has caused seismic-like cracks in the foundations of such industries as radio, movies, sports and book publishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Young Monster | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...most difficult job of his life. Ike Eisenhower, who had conquered some massive tasks in his day, was directing the rebuilding of the U.S. Army and its once-great Air Forces, both still at the edge of wrack & ruin as the result of the U.S.'s planless postwar demobilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: In the Balance | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

Like millions of other Americans, President Truman came back from vacation this week and buckled down to work. His planless 18-day vacation on the Atlantic had been a success: he was deeply tanned, rested, feeling fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Back to Work | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...allowed to return to the side of his British soldier son Ignatius (a condemned murderer), lost his race with the hangman, repented of his wicked life. In 1938 he transcendentalized: "I am still pro-Chinese and therefore pro-Japanese." As World War II approached, he demanded that peace-planless European governments resign before Tibetan Buddhist "supreme masters" were compelled to chastise them with secret "forces and powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 18, 1943 | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...that type of foundation (planlessness) a discussion of a labor freeze or a labor draft is not merely futile nonsense, it is dangerous nonsense. If our manpower distribution today is planless and chaotic, a job freeze simply freezes chaos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deferment Preferred | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

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