Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...long wanted U. S. industry run by management-labor councils, further proposed a plan for a new National Defense Board. His plan would set up such councils in each of the major defense industries. Their duties: to coordinate production facilities, see that they are put to full use; to hustle the unemployed back to work; to promote industrial peace...
...take the angry compliment as an offer, stayed with his union. Now he directs its activities in General Motors plants. Last fortnight he bounced into Washington with an idea for sale-free. He wanted to give it away to Defense Commissioner Knudsen, President Roosevelt, anybody else who would use it. His idea: let the U. S. Government take the automobile industry in hand, mobilize its vast capacity for aircraft manufacture...
...mules, trying to wangle more than their allotted two divisions in the new Army. The Eighth Cavalry's Troop A night-marched into the desert, taught raw recruits to find their way by moon and stars across the trailless land. Commanding officers slaved at newfangled exercises, learning to use radio and motorcycle communication, use also the squadron of reconnaissance tanks which will be part of each new cavalry division. On the chill, white expanse of the drill ground or in the dank corrals, recruits learned the manual of arms, the ways of horses, impressed their officers with their "remarkable...
...directed into the channels of the Nazi war industry. German loot has been on a gigantic scale. . . . The Nazis are exerting 30% more energy than Britain on their war output. ... In the war's second winter we still have three-quarters of a million workers we cannot find use for. . . . Let every man in Britain ask himself whenever he feels like taking life easy, 'What have I done this winter day to win the war this spring...
Question last week was whether they would be able to use them. The most important ingredient of all-a benevolent nod from Washington-was nowhere to be seen. If the New Deal has no use for Chip Robert, Avila Camacho has a lot of use for the friendship of the New Deal. It is a good customer for his useless silver. It may, if his negotiations are successful, even become a good customer for Mexico's expropriated oil. In such delicate times, Avila Camacho, for all his hospitality to pioneering principles, would not want to incur Washington...