Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...articles in the short time between issues available for research. At last I have found the answer-they just get them out of their heads! In TIME, Oct. 21, you state "Military men also understood that a civilian director was in keeping with U. S. tradition and with a basic conscription principle...
...Lewis' recent allies further to the right) what to expect. His warning: that workers will not base their wage demands on the cost of living only; what they want is a share of mounting defense profits too. His explanation of the recent lull in strikes: union agreements in basic industries (coal, autos) have not yet expired. Next spring, promised Mr. Pressman, the fireworks will be resumed...
Most obvious door to the central mysteries of life is protoplasm, the basic stuff of living cells. An intriguing characteristic of all raw protoplasm is its "streaming"-a flow like watery jelly. For some years Dr. William Seifriz, professor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania, has cultured an exceedingly primitive, golden yellow slime mold called Physarum polycephalum, just about the lowest observable form of life. In its streaming he has clocked a major rhythm of about 45 seconds (TIME, Dec. 6, 1937). Rather like a primordial heartbeat, this pulse may be the ancestor of all real heartbeats...
...before in its history -some 6,460,000 tons, up 10% from preceding month, far above the 5,920,000 tons produced in 1929's best month. It was not enough. With defense orders piling up faster than the steel could be made, the need for expansion in basic steel capacity was obvious. Biggest expansion news last week came not from steel headquarters in Pittsburgh, but from Birmingham, Ala. There, Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad will spend $20-25,000,000 for new capacity...
...completed BT-13 Army planes. On the assembly line were 20 more that would have been finished by week's end. To Downey rushed War Department, National Defense Commission and Labor Department officials to confer with C. I. O. men and Vultee officials about the union's basic demand: an increase in minimum wages from 50? to 75? an hour. Meanwhile, Army pilots from Moffett Field went through the picket line without interference to fly away the 17 completed planes. But the factory stood idle. One minor division of the defense program was stalled...