Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Collaborated with enemy agents for important espionage and other purposes damaging to the war effort of the United Nations...
...plan, which bore the President's enthusiastic approval, called for an enormous expansion of the nation's building industry, for the recruiting and training of an army of 1,500,000 new workers in the building trades. It also proposed a means of making this vast, dislocating effort acceptable to labor and industry. Borrowing from the techniques of war, Wyatt asked Congress for $600,000,000 to be used in underwriting the risks of expansion and plant conversion, in assuring overtime wages when necessary, in raising wage levels in low-pay industries...
...Japs' balloon-bombing campaign against the U.S. had always looked fantastic, but not until last week was it clear how much effort had been expended on it. The Army & Navy, after digging through enemy archives, summarized their findings...
Moholy-Nagy went on to international fame as a typographer and set designer. He printed everything in lower case, because he thought capital letters wasted time and effort. In England he designed futuristic architectural sets for the movie of H. G. Wells's The Shape of Things to Come. In the machine-minded U.S., he burgeoned as an industrial designer. Among his designs: "air" curtains which send jets of air from the ceiling to keep out drafts; wrap-around tables to minimize reaching for food; and a meaningless "machine of emotional discharge," which he designed for laughs...
...must use our greatest ingenuity and effort as manufacturers to manufacture in the face of very great obstacles . . . as labor leaders to meet the problem of a falling productivity rate among workers ... as Government officials and legislators to get us clear of unnecessary entanglements. . . . We must popularize the notion of work. A recent opinion poll shows that less than 45% of factory workers belonging to unions think they should turn out as much work as they are able . . . among non-union workers 60% think [so]. . . . If this represents the attitude of union men . . . then I think the union leaders have...