Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corrected; that with the exception of 126 Bureau-type lighters which the Bureau of Ships says it completed because the materials had already been cut and partially fabricated, no lighters of the Bureau type were manufactured; and that all manufacturers holding contracts for Bureau-type lighters were ordered to shift to the Higgins type...
...alert for Nazi airborne counterattack. "At the most [a Home Guardsman] may waste a day; at the best he may kill a German before breakfast and be back at his factory on the evening shift...
Said President Roosevelt, explaining the shift: "We are, I hope, approaching the (period when these [occupied] governments must look forward to the re-establishment of their countries. I think it is wise for us to take up the military side of the restoration problems." The President made it plain that the "military side" (presumably cooperation with the underground, etc.) would henceforth be dominant. Other problems will be handled not by a new Ambassador-Minister, but only by charges d'affaires. Diplomats in London generally cheered. They agreed that the Allied Army's diplomatic record (in North Africa...
That such an organization should be completely organized before the war is over might startle some Americans. But in Canada the shift from war production to peacetime manufacture is already methodically beginning...
...about 18 months the Army, Navy and other war procurement agencies have quick-fingered a hot potato that never grew cool. The problem: How could U.S. war contracts be ended uniformly and quickly so that the industrial plant could speedily shift from one war product to another and reconvert without waste motion...