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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...figures, Don Nelson last week formulated his allocation technique: 1) OPM's "end-products" industry sections are to huddle with their industry representatives, develop a "requirements program" for each industry; 2) the "end-products" sections are then to discuss their needs with the OPM raw materials branches involved, scale them down if necessary, but arrive at some minimum figure; 3) OPM's Industrial Conservation Bureau is to advise on possible simplification, substitution etc.; 4) SPAB is to get the finished program, send it to Priorities for actual allocation of materials...
...under N. Y. A. is approximately the same as under T. S. E. Wage rates are also the same. An undergraduate who, can study on the job gets 40 cents; if he can't study he receives ten cents more. Seniors and graduates are paid on a slightly higher scale, with paper-grading reaching a peak of 75 cents. The general purpose of both plans, beside helping students work their way through college, is to keep them from unhealthy night jobs in garages, and such; it gives them the advantage of working within the University and is better work experience...
...rate a production E (for Excellence) is Bausch & Lomb. But, although it is working at top speed, it cannot supply all that the Ordnance Bureau needs. Says Admiral Blandy: "Consider that a single fire-control unit may weigh up to a ton, and that tolerances in that unit will scale down to .0005 of an inch, about half the thickness of a cigaret paper, and you'll see why we'd like a few more Bausch & Lombs...
...Grand Scale...
...Nazis with their superior knowledge of science are waging the war on a grand scale under the daring leadership of dynamic Hitler. The main theater of the aggressive design set by the samurai became a side-show. While the Nazi technique is blitz, the samurai's is stealthy...