Word: spectrum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Financial Policy. General Motors' famed policymaker, Alfred P. Sloan, made an address to the Detroit Economic Club. Before he stopped talking, Alfred Sloan had ranged over the whole spectrum of postwar problems facing U.S. industry. His pro-competition, pro-full employment, pro-internationalism views are by now standard for all but the most die-hard Old Guardsmen. But almost buried in his long speech was a concrete new thought about how private industry might re-examine its own fiscal policies...
...Research Division's job is tougher. It must explore the whole spectrum of postwar economic problems-and also find a way to persuade the business community to put its conclusions to good use.* Its agenda ranges from the immediate problems of conversion to peace to the long-term question of business incentives...
...handle that little skill is needed. Air and fuel gas are automatically circulated, picking up lithium vapor from a small, renewable cartridge about the size of a tin cup, which lasts for eight hours. As long as the exhaust gas burns with the bright scarlet flame characteristic of the spectrum of lithium salts, any workman not color-blind can see that the furnace is working properly...
Yeller Feller. By 1904, when Government Clerks Oscar and Mark Shillingsworth arrived in Port Zodiac (Darwin), the town was a thronging spectrum of racial color. "Going combo" (mixing with the native women) was officially taboo but an enthusiastic reality in a country short on white women and addicted to "black velvet." Soon half-castes outnumbered whites three-to-one. Unrecognized by their white fathers (who felt vaguely double-crossed), they were tolerated as mongrels by the blacks...
...faint but true. Though few except Birch-Field had suspected it, the colors had been registered in the structure of the film since its first exposure. The iriscope is a simple transparent disk that fits over the projector's lens and is dyed with the colors of the spectrum in concentric circles from blue on the inside...