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...Technical Development, OPRD aims to: 1) provide Nelson with data on WPB's technical problems; 2) pass on suggestions which come to WPB through outside sources; 3) farm out experimental work; 4) when necessary, construct full-size pilot plants. Working on industrial problems, it will parallel rather than supplant the Office of Scientific Research & Development, which is concerned with research in munitions and war weapons...
That the new cruzeiro system would bring immediate relief seemed dubious. In effect, Brazil would get not only new money, but more money. Only gradually will the new 10, 20 and 50 centavo pieces, the new, uniform-size cruzeiro bills supplant the timeworn milreis. The new coins, copper, aluminum and zinc, minted since Oct. 12 are being released immediately, but surcharged milreis bills will for a time serve as cruzeiro bills...
Cargo planes have long been a Hughes dream; in one of his rare public speeches, after his round-the-world flight, he predicted that airplanes would some day supplant ocean liners, said that the aircraft industry's future was "beyond the scope of the most fantastic imagination." Now that Imaginer Hughes and Imaginer Kaiser are teamed up, Americans may possibly see some fantastic results...
...store. He used to end a local broadcast with a "God bless you one and all." Once, he omitted the tag line and received ten indignant letters from as many old ladies. Washington newsmen believe that it was Henry Ford himself who picked Godwin's raspy drawl to supplant William J. Cameron (TIME, Feb. 2) as the Voice of Ford...
...results. He had picked his men with care and an eye to their ability on instruments. He had flown the line himself and had had the daylights shaken out of him. Now he was ironing out operational procedures, shaking the last kinks out of the line that must supplant the last Burma road and then step up deliveries beyond any maximum that the trucks could have reached. But that time is not yet. Unless a great many more planes are put on the ferry hop China will continue to be virtually cut off from all U.S. supplies and help...