Word: developing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill to develop the 4-H Clubs, costing $86,000,000 for the first six years; $24,000,000 annually thereafter...
...probable minimum, the Army would have to support the Navy with an armored division, a motorized infantry division, land planes to put on the five airports near Dakar. Enormous problems of transocean supply (when the U.S. and Britain are already short of sea transport) would immediately develop. The Navy remembers what happened to General Charles de Gaulle and the British when they approached Dakar with an insufficient force. And Dakar's defenses-even without probable German reinforcements-are stronger today than they were last fall...
...these new techniques are not the only merit of this extraordinary picture. One of Hollywood's weaknesses in the past has been its inability to develop character with the insight of a good stage-play. But Welles builds his picture around a character study of his central figure, showing every side of the complex Kane. The picture evolves from the attempts of the producer of the March of Time (News on the March in the film) to find the significance of the millionaire Kane's dying word, "Rosebud." As the reporter questions the people who knew him best, trying...
...Ordnance inefficiencies? Hell, yes," says Mr. Glancy, "but it's a marvel to me how they held together at all under that kind of expansion. For 20 years Ordnance officers have been begging this manufacturer to develop a sight, that manufacturer to redesign a breech block, another for a recoil mechanism, with never enough money to back it up, and now all of a sudden ordnance is expected to have mass production. It just isn't in the wood...
...conception of the management scheme of a great industrial organization," he says, ". . . is to divide it into as many parts as consistently can be done, place in charge of each part the most capable executive that can be found, develop a system of coordination . . . welding all parts together in the common interests of a joint enterprise . . . developing ability and initiative . . . developing men and giving them an opportunity to exercise their talents, both in their own interests as well as in that of the business." The managerial revolutionists cannot practice this kind of democracy which might save their great centralizations: they...