Word: planner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affairs planned with the stealthy calculation of Indian raids, and executed with the bludgeon force of gang assassinations. For this kind of operation, well executed in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands and in the assault on Marcus Island only 1,200 miles from Tokyo, the U.S. public could thank Planner Nimitz...
With our armed forces at one of the lowest ebbs of the war, this is probably the most unpopular time a post-war "planner" could pick to air his findings. But if anyone thinks that we will be able to take those problems in our stride when we come to them, he had better take a gander at what is going to happen to the so-called "industry of the future," when the smoke clears away...
...hundred and fifty years ago Pierre L'Enfant. Revolutionary War veteran and city planner, laid out the only completely planned city in the U.S.: Washington. D.C. Last week well-planned Washington had become the prime U.S. example of the weaknesses of permanent city planning. With housing facilities overflowing, wide avenues glutted, its normal population (500,000) swelled to 1,000,000, war-tan-gled Washington had forgotten to celebrate the 150th anniversary of L'Enfant's plan...
...Manhattan's Architectural League last week, Architect Lorimer Rich (designer of the Unknown Solidier monument at Arlington Cemetary) belatedly celebrated it with an exhibition of maps models and photographs. Architect Rich's exhibition showed what a beautiful job an unfettered planner can do with a city. It also showed that, in a fluid age of mechanical progress, cities must be planned, not like timeless monuments, but like elastic military campaigns...
...career of a redhaired, chubby-legged little U.S. boy, Corky Kelly, age one and a half, was mapped out for him last week by a great planner. To the President of the U.S. in 1956, Mr. Roosevelt wrote...