Word: redesign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is still more than a year's supply (95,000 tons) of tin on hand in the U.S. But industry is already feeling the pinch. Example: auto men have had to redesign motor parts to cut the use of tin from four...
...plane's present cruising speed, 400 m.p.h., a pilot has almost all he can do to stay conscious during maneuvers ; a slight turn may make him black out. Some jet-plane enthusiasts are beginning to observe, only half-jokingly, that it may soon be necessary to redesign the human body...
...Wells, in Little Wars, told how he and his friends had played with toy cannon, soldiers, houses and mock terrain, a play war of "brisk little battles." In 1917 Hudson Maxim, the inventor and explosives expert, revealed with some disgust that he had been forced to redesign his own war game to include the new factor of airpower. A New Yorker profile of Norman Bel Geddes in 1941 noted...
Jean Knox's formula for womanly morale: "No woman can be happy in her job unless she's well-dressed." Her first plans last week were to redesign the A.T.S.' ungainly bell skirt, do away with Mrs. Bloomer's famed undergarment. She instructed camp tailoresses: "Take an inch up on the shoulder, raise the shoulder line, shorten sleeves, give more wrapover in front. . . ." Busting tradition as wide open as the male generals who tolerated tanks in place of horses, she made rayon panties standard equipment for the A.T.S...
...completely independent air force would be effective only under a supreme command like the Nazis' Great General Staff, directing Army, Navy and Air. The U.S. has no such supreme command, and any effort to set one up in the midst of emergency would require "a general reorganization and redesign of the entire defense organization of this nation...