Word: gist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME herewith publishes the gist of a plan, proposed last week, for U.S. participation in the postwar world. TIME calls its readers' attention to this plan because: 1) it is a specific blueprint, documented far beyond generalities; 2) it is pointed toward next week's meeting of the Republican Postwar Advisory Council at Mackinac Island, Mich., called to formulate an official GOPolicy on postwar affairs...
...Aware of the squeeze on canners, New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey allotted $200,000 to spread instructions on home canning throughout the state to preserve a maximum amount of food. Also before Governor Dewey was the report of his Emergency Food Commission. Gist of the report: the nation must shift from a meat to a grain diet, must stretch its grain crops to the last ounce by feeding them directly to people instead of to livestock to be converted to meat. (The average hog takes seven pounds of corn to produce one pound of table pork...
...Gist of the funeral orations: 1) the U.S. war plant is now substantially built, therefore the U.S. hunger for machines to build the machinery is almost satisfied; 2) the wartime production of new machine tools will leave the postwar U.S. with enough tools to starve every builder out of the business. Conclusion: the industry is firmly, patriotically digging its own grave...
...gist of the matter is that the agency was more interested in previous commitments, chiefly Duke's opening April 1st at the Hurricane in New York, and they had no idea of the urgency of affairs. Nor did we have any idea of their attitude until too late. if they had been a little more on their toes, the story might have ended happily. For example, the first time we heard from the agency direct was two weeks after Duke had phoned them the news...
Newspaper stories of a reign of terror in the schools aroused the B.B.R. to investigation. Gist of Chairman Schantz's report: pupils are misunderstood; teachers and pupils should regularly talk over personal and school problems; courses should be revised by people "with modern ideas for modern students"; pupils should be allowed "any choice of subjects which they feel might be of use"; there should be more recreational centers...