Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leslie Hore-Belisha, who would undoubtedly like to be Prime Minister himself, declared: "Productivity in factories and docks is falling at an alarming rate. . . . The tempo of our effort cannot be considered adequate when five months have to elapse between the fire of London and the outlining of a scheme for the coordination of the fire brigades...
...religious closed shop was being debated last week by Louisville, Ky.'s Jewish community. The scheme, unprecedented in U.S. ecclesiastical polity: to deny religious rites*-except to the very poor-to local residents not formally affiliated with one of the city's six congregations...
...known around Washington chiefly for its sex appeal and the brash energy of its occupant. Visitors were decorously received by a brunette bombshell with a rippling voice, ushered into a blue-leather-decorated office by a blonde vision. There they found Mr. Rockefeller ready to listen to any scheme to promote good-neighborly relations. Outside the office Mr. Rockefeller astonished official Washington by his ability to pop in & out of a dozen committee meetings a day, to write innumerable memorandums, to argue lengthily with Congressmen, to send all over Latin America young men who astonished the natives with their apparent...
...went to husky, squash-nosed Brigadier General Davenport Johnson, overseas pilot of World War I and a flying veteran of Black Jack Pershing's expedition after Villa in 1916. By the time Johnny Johnson had got on the job, the Air Corps had started revising its whole training scheme. It had given primary training (first ten weeks of its seven-and-a-half-month course) over to 28 civilian schools, detailed a few officers to each to supervise flying and teach cadets how to act like military...
...rationing order was put into effect to make sure that Britain's scant supply of clothing, footwear, cloth and knitting wool would be distributed as evenly as possible. Under the scheme everyone will get 66 clothes coupons a year, must surrender some with each purchase he makes. A man's suit will take 26 coupons, a woman's dress 11, shirts 5, pajamas 8, galoshes (adult) 4, bathing suit (adult) 4, silk stockings 2. Bombees will get extra coupons...