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Word: devotee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Government is now spending on the war effort at the rate of two billion dollars a month, may spend more than five billion a month during fiscal 1943. Big budget points: > The Government is determined to devote "at least one-half" of national production to the war effort. > The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You Put It in Figures-- | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

New Yorkers, whom Mr. LaGuardia had been advising to keep calm & cool, decided that it was time Butch took some of his own advice. His friendliest critics, the Manhattan press went to work swatting the Mayor's bottom, a new experience for New York's little cock-of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN DEFENSE: Hen-yard Pagliaccio | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

So that Harvard will be able to answer calls for any kind of volunteer defense workers, everyone will be asked to state on his questionnaire how much time he would be willing to devote to defense work and to list his preferences in a widely diversified number of subjects including...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Questionnaires On A.R.P. Work Will Be Distributed to University | 1/6/1942 | See Source »

How long Girdler stays there depends upon how fast he can do the job at hand. "I was born and bred a steel man and want to die a steel man" says he at 64. He remains chairman of Republic Steel, whose directors last week voted to "sacrifice part of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girdler's New Job | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

The Committee's final statement said that the members had decided to dissolve the organization and "to devote their time and energy to the military and defense activities of the nation to the end that all the American may be victorious and secure at the earliest possible date."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-Interventionists Give Funds to Defense Group | 12/17/1941 | See Source »

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