Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trickle for months, was ordered into high gear last week when beachhead tank losses in France were bigger than anticipated; in addition, Rear Admiral Emory S. Land announced that merchantship production would soon be stepped up). But a scheduled cut in overall war production is at last in view. Then the U.S. will be smack up against many of the manifold problems of reconversion, must face up to the task of supplying jobs to those laid off by the cutbacks and shutdowns...
This is a "night view" of what postwar manufacturing plants may look like from the air. Designed by the H. K. Ferguson Co., industrial engineers and builders, of Cleveland and New York, the plan is the result of a year's research. The aim: to make the factory a community asset by hiding machinery connections, replacing boiler houses with cleaner, more sightly power sources, etc., and to give the employes ideal working conditions. For management, designers stress the value of the "air view," in that an attractive plant is a potential sales story for plane travelers...
Crowds followed Lieut. General Mark Clark's jeep through the streets. Barelegged young women in summer prints and sportswear promenaded the Corso Umberto. The view indicated that there was not a girdle in Rome...
...first eyewitness reports by U.S. correspondents fresh back from the fighting. Each report had a compelling immediacy, and all were ably done. Among the best: NBC's Merrill Mueller reporting the look and feel of Eisenhower's headquarters; CBS's Richard Hottelet sketching a Marauder's-eye view of the ship-packed Channel and invasion coast; Mutual's Larry Meier describing a landing...
...return Salesman Eric got a heavy dose of Russian sales technique. Workers at the Red October candy factory gave him huge, fancy ribbon-tied boxes of chocolates. Pastry cooks gave him gooey cakes. Soviet bigwigs showered him with teas, dinners, parties, promised him a rare, general's-eye-view of the front. By week's end healthy, energetic Johnston had abandoned his announced firm policy of refusing all drinks "on doctor's orders." At a luncheon on a collective fur farm he drank toasts in vodka, an hour later began yelling "Whoo...