Word: shoestringing
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On the surface it certainly looked as if Gus Swebilius was one war producer who deserved to have a shoestring pay off.
Then the depression dumped Marchant and Fridén into deep red ink, finally dumped Fridén right out. He went back to shoestring calculating, determined to invent a competing machine and at the same time avoid any patent fights. In one year flat he had it: with the...
The small manufacturer, caught be tween OPA and skyrocketing costs, can legally do one of two things, provided his gross margin fits OPA definitions. He can : 1) drop his low-priced lines and concentrate on the higher ones; or 2) if he has no higher ones, he can go out...
The Freshmen. One day last November, three weeks after the Allied landing on the coast, a group of sweating U.S. tankmen halted their 750-mile dash from Oran, near the crest of a hill overlooking Tunis. The prize was twelve miles away. They had paused for orders from the officer...
U.S. and British flyers won shoestring control of the air over Burma last week. It was not decisive, for the Japanese could, if necessary, double their air power in Burma overnight-something that General Sir Archibald Wavell and Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault each wished that he could do.