Word: groundworks
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...plan came form the trade unions. Although the idea was the conceived by the unions in 1941, it was only after months of planning and consultation on both sides that President Conant, in January, 1942, gave his approval and active steps were taken to launch the plan. Important groundwork was provided by Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University professor, who, in the labor-management seminars he has conducted for several years, has brought labor leaders and industrial executives together for week-end discussions of industrial labor relations...
Last week the U.S. learned of Mark Clark's daring expedition* and of the intricate military and diplomatic groundwork that preceded the invasion of French North Africa. The U.S. also heard the much fuller account of how last fortnight the A.E.F., building on that groundwork, had swept to a quick, clean victory. Within four days of the first landing, all official French resistance had ceased on orders of Admiral Jean Francois Darlan, chief of Vichy's armed forces. Algiers, Oran, Rabat, Casablanca and the rest were in American hands. So was Admiral Darlan...
...President had not yet made the great decision about 1944, he had at least made the small one: he was not yet ready to abdicate control of the Democratic Party. And as U.S. politics go, the leader who does not keep a finger in, who does not lay the groundwork of delegates and local organizations and friendly candidates, soon finds himself deposed without a struggle. In this sense, the political situation in the Second Kansas or Third New York district is as important to the President as the political situations in other countries...
...laid his elaborate groundwork, West Pointer Eisenhower could be well pleased that his top commanders were, like himself, relatively young generals and products of the merit system...
...lose his end of the war, Karl Doenitz will never lose the dubious historical honor of being the man who could-and did-lay the groundwork for the greatest submarine fleet in history, in utter defiance of the Versailles Treaty and under the very noses of Allied investigating missions...