Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the V-12 program being put into final shape, Lieutenant Edward Hodnett, USNR, has been named officer-in-charge of the unit which will arrive on July 1, Ensign Raymond Adkins, USNR, will be in charge of the physical training program for these men, and Chief Specialists John A. Newman, Richard A. Thomas, Sherman L. Lioyd, and Henry D. Martin are on the staff...
...terms of ownership, this is the shape of the war plant that the U.S. has contracted for between June 1940 and February of this year-by which time materials shortages were ending plant expansion. No New Deal grab for power but hard-money business logic dictated the mounting blocks of Government ownership in the nation's new manufacturing capacity-from 41% in petroleum to 99.6% in explosives. In terms of dollars, the U.S. Government has financed some 85% of the entire program. Private capital financed as much expansion as it would have in normal times. The Government naturally shared...
...making history. There were some pretty important "firsts": for the first time the Soviet Government expressed a willingness to work with the rest of the world after the war; the first clear indication that the little nations, not just the Big Four, will have a say in the shape of the future; and the first general stocktaking of world food needs...
Policy for Plenty. View the world as a challenge to investment, a challenge to the American sense of project and the frontier, and the outlines of the postwar money problem assume a definite shape...
...While the Rubber Program is not yet solved, it is in the best shape it has ever been." He cited chapter & verse...