Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anxious look at the country's wornout farm implements. Old strikes at other farm implement companies (International Harvester, Caterpillar Tractor, John Deere, Oliver Farm Equipment) had already set farm production back. Labor Secretary Schwellenbach looked down his gun. He told Clausen and Geist to make "a real effort" to settle things-or the U.S. would move...
...Army is still mobilized to a point where its drain on manpower and supply, combined with the other shortages, seriously hampers reconstruction. In its supreme effort to get the job done, the Kremlin is keeping concessions to consumers at a minimum. Life in the postwar Ukraine is dreary, incredibly dreary. It will stay that way for a long time...
...should be emphasized that there still are honest and liberal forces within the Kuomintang capable of undertaking reform. Shanghai's new mayor, K. C. Wu, appears to be making an earnest effort to improve the situation in Shanghai. Wu's program to cut rice prices this week brought the price down in two days from 60,000 to 51,000 dollars a picul at week's end, and resulted in the arrest of" Jen Hsin-ya, section chief of the Shanghai Food Commissioner's Office, on charges of irregularities in the discharge of his duties...
...years Hollywood has been struggling to keep movies out of the clutches of local censors. The Hays-Johnston organization, Hollywood's chief effort to mind its own morals, costs the studios a sizable (and secret) amount of money every year. Last week the long, costly struggle was getting a serious setback...
President Conant concluded the program with an address on "Harvard's Contribution to the War Effort." Characterizing the University as "a fund of talent which, in an emergency, can be mobilized for all sorts of things," he went on to enumerate the specific achievements by Alumni and members of Harvard both at home and in the field. In particular he called attention to the more more than 100 projects at Harvard financed by the Office of Scientific Research and Development, with an expenditure of more than $28,000,000. He praised highly the training programs carried on by the departments...