Word: whether
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...railroads were not a bottleneck in 1940. But debate raged as to whether they would become a bottleneck...
...increasing its installed kilowatts by 1,380,000 net to 40,330,000. It also planned 6,076,000 new kilowatts for 1941 and 1942. The defense-conscious Federal Power Commission wanted them to up that by 1,500,000 kw. But the question was whether Westinghouse and General Electric, already swamped with defense business from a dozen other sources, could find enough skilled labor for such utility expansion...
...threading the narrowing gap between capacity and Defense production, none footed it so featly as the automakers. As soon as the President called for 50,000 planes, people figured Detroit would make few cars that year. But before anyone could say whether or not Detroit should have the necessary tools, its retooling was already under...
Since France's fall, chief debate in the $1,000,000,000 U. S. dress industry is whether U. S. designers can do the job that trend-dictating P'aris once did for it (TIME, Aug. 19). For three months Paris Couturière Elsa Schiaparelli has barnstormed the U. S. talking fashions under the auspices of CBS's Columbia Artists, Inc. She also had a profitable sideline in selling her tour wardrobe designs to U. S. dress manufacturers (at $600 apiece plus 7% of the sales). By last week, as she was preparing to Clipper back...
Wodehouse has been at it almost since Queen Victoria died, does not quite remember whether he has written 40 or 50 books. He is always just the same, usually just as good. Some critics attribute this titillating timelessness to the fact that he has raised the stage Englishman to the dignity of literature. Others have called him an acute social critic, professing to see the blunderings of Munich foreshadowed in the maunderings of Bertie Wooster...