Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each defense agency was born out of confusion, and died of strangulation by red tape. Each left unsolved the great root question: Should civilians or the military allocate war-scarce materials? WPB and Donald Nelson insisted that civilians should do the allocating, that the civilian economy must be protected, or the whole war effort would suffer. His reshuffle of WPB last week was a sign that his victory over the services, still struggling for control of materials, was practically complete...
Above all, don't get the idea that Freshmen are to be seen and not heard. That concept has never taken very deep root around the Square, and would be especially foolish now. None of the men around you, Faculty and undergraduates alike, has ever seen a term quite like this before, and most of them are just as much...
...Chicago as an apprentice draftsman in 1887, just when the first modern skyscrapers in the world were abuilding in that brawny city. While the rest of the U.S. was content with old-fashioned imitation Greek pillars and Victorian knickknacks, Chicago Architects William Le Baron Jenney, Louis Sullivan and John Root had thought out a new, austere type of building that was to dominate U.S. big-city architecture for half a century...
Wrote angry Sascha: "Air power is not a matter of numbers, but of proper strategy, tactics, psychological attitudes toward the new domain of conflict. . . ." The root of his criticism is that many Army, Navy and civilian officials now directing the U.S. air program still fail to grasp the fabulous possibilities of global air power...
There are some good insecticides that can be made from plants, of which one is rotenone. But no more rotenone comes from derris root in the East Indies, which used to supply more than half the U.S. needs. About 40% of the rotenone normally used in the U.S. comes from South America. Intensive cultivation could step this up to 60%; but the problem of finding shipping space and getting the ships past Axis submarines would remain...