Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...almost always, in reality, a period of basic preparation necessary to sound achievement. . . . Few people realize that before actual production can start, months of effort must be expended upon design alone. . . . For instance . . . approximately 2,400 individual drawings are required in the complete design of the light tanks.* . . . The problem of machine tools, which is fundamental to the entire defense program, is another point where . . . it may seem that little or nothing is being done. . . . The kind of work involved does not, of course, attract headlines. Very definite progress is being made. . . . Through the unlimited cooperation of the [machine tool...
...work on Defense production? Knudsen: "You make me think of a little story. It was at the National Cash Register Co. when some improvement . . . was not coming fast enough to suit the president. 'Why don't you have twice as many scientists at work on the problem?' he demanded. 'You can't get anywhere by having two hens sitting on the same egg,' said the production manager...
...serious problem exists in . . . the production of small arms and ammunition...
Syphilis is a conquered disease in one sense only-that the chemical means to obliterate it are on hand. Its real conquest is a problem of lining up the patients. Standard syphilis-destroyer is arsphenamine, the drug salvarsan ("606") which Germany's Paul Ehrlich concocted 30 years ago. Mercury and bismuth compounds are also useful. But all these drugs must be injected regularly over a long period (18 months to two years) and many patients heartily dislike injections and monotonous visits to the doctor. When their gross symptoms disappear, they often abandon treatment forthwith, still harboring the pale lurking...
...still that office boy." He still makes other architects uncomfort able by calling architecture "90% business and 10% art." Unlike his equally functional-minded contemporary, Frank Lloyd Wright, who gets a free hand from his clients, Kahn preaches to his staff that the client's analysis of the problem is the first step to its solution. Clients who have appreciated this approach include (besides virtually the entire automotive industry) the Governments of the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. For the latter, as consultant on the First Five Year Plan, Kahn designed factories at Stalingrad, Chelyabinsk, Kuznetsk...