Word: trims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London. Overnight he turns its trim interior into a welter of littered papers, damp towels, cast-off clothes, bottles, of hair tonic, a copy of Mein Kampf - chaos as complete as if the Balkans had been dumped in the heart of respectable Kensington. Daily, through this mush, Director Bergmann stamps the floor like a bathrobed Hercules faced with an absurd but unavoidable Labor. He roars genially at nervous Colleague Isherwood: "I am sure we shall be very happy together...
...from Wall Street. Fortunately for the Navy, in all this squally weather and rising winds, it had a skillful pilot-the trim, well-groomed man with the flattened nose and the Wall Street background who for the past year and a half had been its civilian head...
Nothing Smelly. At Frank Spina's barbershop Harry Truman got his usual trim, reminded his old barber: "None of that fancy stuff. I don't want anything that smells." He got plain water. Over at the Federal Building he saw more old friends and held a brief press conference. Of the Supreme Court vacancy he told reporters: "The hardest thing in the world is to find a good man when you want one." After lunch he went home to Independence and slept all afternoon...
...submission had been hit harder, dollarwise, than any other plane company by contract cancellations. Boeing already has on hand almost enough sub-assemblies for all the B-29s the Army will take in the next three months. The company had no choice but to stay closed until it can trim its force down to the small number needed to put out the few B-29s wanted (only five or six a month by April...
Lockheed for Leadership. Lockheed felt fine and said so. It had been able to trim its peak payroll of 80,000 to 38,000 before the end of the war, has laid off 1,000 since. When production of its famed P-38 Lightning was ended, it shifted the workers to its new 550 m.p.h. jet fighter, the Shooting Star. Though cut back, Lockheed will still turn out 40 a month, biggest production of any Army fighter. On top of its backlog in military orders, they have a whopping $150,000,000 in civilian orders for their shark-sleek transport...