Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scheme is not new. Denver's hard-driving Robert S. Palmer, 41-year-old mining association secretary, has been urging it for years. But the cost was only one barrier. The tunnel would interlace through 600 miles of underground workings, involving 2,000 patented claims, with heirs spread from Atlanta to China. RFC took one look at the legal snares, refused funds. Then the Bureau of Mines, anxious to increase zinc production, took an interest. (Zinc is used in brass cartridges; every big bomber carries 500 pounds of it.) As a war measure, Congress last spring gave Ickes...
...Scheme. It was a vital goal of the counteroffensive which MacArthur began last June 30. Inch-by-inch land fighting had brought MacArthur's men laboriously to Lae, to Finschhaven in New Guinea, to Munda and Vella Lavella in the Solomons. Americans who toiled in the rain and heat to build airfields, Australians who fought to clear the enemy from Huon Gulf, made the aerial climax possible...
...Chicago, Marshall Field & Co. cooked up a new scheme to get workers in time for the Christmas crush. In a big "Job Trailer," Field's employment office began junketing around Chicago's suburbs, trying to trap no-experience, part-or-fulltime, now-or-later applicants for "425 different Christmas jobs...
Golf Facts. Month ago, May came up with his newest publicity scheme the American Golf Foundation, which would furnish golf clubs with free advice on management problems. Since 1936, May has poured $552,000 into managing Chicago's famed Tam O'Shanter Golf Club, he claims, mainly to stage razzle-dazzle tournaments like his All-American Open tournament there last summer. May picked up yards of publicity and the firm belief that most U.S. businessmen are golf-minded. So May feels that any businessman who might escape the mail-order barrage is still within an easy chip shot...
...Inevitably the people of the United States before long are going to have to make up their minds whether they want to gamble their lives and happiness on some Socialistic scheme of state capital ism, entirely theoretical, or whether as free individuals to drive ahead to achieve a still higher living standard. . . . When we reach the end of the war, this country will confront a problem almost as big as preparing for war. If there were the same desire in government as there is out of it to enable capitalism to meet this test there could be more intelligent planning...