Word: doubledealing
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He conceded that the U.S. had suffered a serious defeat in the Pacific. He called on the people to prepare for a long war which "we are going to win." He outlined a program for "doubled and quadrupled" war production by increasing the working week to the maximum of seven...
Boston: A cold wind needled down from the north, dispelling the fog....Power-plant guards were doubled, as they were at factories, shipyards, reservoirs. Air-raid warden posts manned 24 hours a day. All recruiting stations jammed....Governor Saltonstall and Mayor Tobin spoke at a mass preparedness meeting at Faneuil...
Planes. The U.S. had planned to achieve an output of 543 heavy bombers a month by June 1943. Mr. Knudsen last week doubled this program to 1,000.
Donald Nelson bluntly told the manufacturers that "if private enterprise is going to come through this ordeal it has got to undergo considerable improvement." Despite industry's "amazingly fine" defense record in 18 months, "production at that rate won't beat Hitler. It won't even keep...
He redesigned a 50-year-old pipe-threading machine into a milling machine, a 40-year-old spindle drill press into a vertical milling machine. To start production he hired five Ohio Pen ex-convicts. Three of them, a burglar and two forgers, have since left him for better jobs...