Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...materials control and production should be Siamese twins. Not so in Washington. Week ago Donald Nelson touched off the row when he turned over to Wilson (on Wilson's threat of resignation) certain all-important "industry divisions" which Ferd Eberstadt has labored long and hard to build up. Function of these divisions is to see to it that, after raw materials have been divided up between the Army and Navy and other contenders, they flow smoothly to prime contractors and vital component parts manufacturers. They are the vital agencies on which WPB's control of raw materials depends...
...important function of Harvard today is providing mess and housing facilities for the Army and Navy. The University now beds 6500 men as opposed to a normal capacity of 4000, and could increase that to 8000. Where students lived two to a room in Perkins and Conant, the chaplains have been crowded in six to a suite. The present figure of 6000 men eating in the 16 University dining halls could be it is estimated advanced to 10,000 by the installation of a military shift and self-service system...
...Hope. The situation is not hopeless. Every Navy man in Washington knows the solution: convoys plus air cover. If every Allied cargo carrier is convoyed, most naval experts agree the U-boat can be licked. Submarines have abandoned areas where heavy convoys operate, especially when coastal air patrols function with the naval escorts...
...Church has no special competence in the field of politics. . . . The function of the Church is not to write the constitution For a post-war world, nor to nudge the statesmen who try to do this...
...political cliques and little else, none except members of the Student Council can be aware of the fact. It would be impossible even to ascertain whether the Nominating Committee is fairly apportioned among the Houses or is representative of those students who live at home. No electorate can function effectively in darkness; no purchaser can look a horse in the mouth when its lips are sealed...