Word: spading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said he: "Policies generated behind a desk frequently do not fit conditions throughout the nation." To make certain that SWPC policies do meet the needs, Johnson has made the 14 SWPC districts in the nation virtually autonomous, has called in local retailers, bankers and credit men to do the spade work that should get idle small plants to work. (Best example of how the plan is working: Manhattan retailers found a surprising number of plants in their area which could increase civilian goods production tomorrow with materials already cached in Manhattan warehouses, where they have been frozen under a months...
...terminations, the Army now has dapper, red-tape-hating Brigadier General Albert Jesse Browning. AI Browning left his $40,000-a-year job as president of Chicago's United Wallpaper, Factories, in 1941, to earn $1 a year with OPM. Later he joined SPAB, did plenty of the spade work converting U.S. industry to war. Before he went to Washington, he had converted a good chunk of his own plant...
...open at the neck, his belt loosened, his black shoes unlaced. His grey eyes peered through the windows of his comfortable house to the shade trees on Washington's drowsy Hobart Street. Now, he thought, there would be time to dabble in the tiny home laboratory, to spade and weed the small backyard garden...
...weeks ago, 16 of the 19 U.S. airlines demanded wide open competition in postwar international airlines (TIME, July 26), started spade work to prevent Pan American Airways from regaining the peacetime monopoly it once...
There will be no postwar public construction unless plans are made now, warned efficient, spade-calling Major General Philip B. Fleming, Federal Works Administrator in Atlanta this week. Said he, "Precious little planning has been done. . . . There are plenty of ideas floating around, plenty of pretty pictures and idle fancies -you can't build on idle fancies...