Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consumption, a maximum of 20 hours is left to serve war purposes. Let us work an additional ten and step up the flow of war goods 50%. Fifty hours a week will still be below the German or Japanese average. Five o'clock is too early to stop dam-building while the flood rises. The Saturday afternoon is not sacrosanct. Let us follow the Australian example by suspending public holidays. Do MacArthur's men take the weekends...
...drives into Nazi lines even crept into German communiques. Berlin admitted that the Russians were on the edge of the Soviets' Pittsburgh -Kharkov -by saying that the city had been under heavy artillery fire. Bald Marshal Semion Timoshenko was within 20 miles of Dniepropetrovsk and its wrecked power dam, bulling his way ahead at the tip of a sharp salient...
...independence in the face of a desperate threat to Britain's eastern empire: these are only symptoms of an attitude that is costing us lives now, and may cost us victory later. It is an attitude that contrasts strangely with the willingness of the Russians to destroy the Dniepropetrousk Dam, the greatest achievement of their nation, because they could look forward to building a better dam when the war was over. With this courage and this vision we must take the offensive...
...believe there is more kindliness in England today than in all its history. The fear that the discipline of war would harden the hearts of men and dam social progress has not materialized...
...fact of the matter is that as long ago as 1938, or somewhat before the war started, ALCOA launched a $200,000,000 expansion program. As part of this program, it planned to build a gigantic plant near the Grand Coulee Dam; it applied to Jesse ones for a loan so that it might build the plant, and to Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes for a power permit in order to operate it. Mr. Jones was instrumental in the refusal of the loan, and Mr. Ickes saw to it that the power permit, and it requests were granted...