Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plus a month needed for this year to meet the President's 1943 goal of 125,000 combat aircraft. In 1942 the goal had been 60,000. Actually 48,000 were produced. That was still a lot of aircraft for a production machine starting almost from scratch...
...years. . . . The new owners must be ready with enterprise, working capital, management, gameness, the spirit of adventure. . . . Even if the war stops baseball for a couple of seasons, the value of the Philadelphia club would be enhanced. . . . After two years of inactivity all the clubs would start from scratch...
...Costs: The results of this headache hullabaloo have been spectacular in terms of sales: less than one year from scratch, Mejoral has recovered (on a yearly basis) some four-fifths of the 25-year-old aspirin market that Sydney Ross and Sterling International lost when the Cafiaspirina arrangement was canceled. But the Mejoral push has also been spectacular in terms of costs: close to $2,000,000 of hard Sterling cash went into Latin American advertising last year, using up perhaps 30% of its Good Neighbor gross. Other costs have skyrocketed too: e.g., 2,000 employes, many of them meticulously...
...outbreak of war cut off Europe's wine supply, left the import divisions of most U.S. distillers with a crack sales and distributing setup but nothing to do. So the distillers began switching to domestic wines, bought wineries outright because it was far cheaper than starting from scratch. Then last August WPB stopped all whiskey production, ordered the distillers to convert to war alcohol (TIME, Sept. 14). The distillers looked over their whiskey stocks, discovered they had 480,000,000 bbl., enough to last only two years unless the U.S. stops drinking so fast and hoarding so much...
...ever before, but its grammar has been so muddled by experimentation that it has become a language that everybody understands, but practically nobody can speak. The next few years will tell whether the broken pieces can be put together again or a new tonal language must be created from scratch...