Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Nations shipping pool, greatest transportation enterprise in history, was breaking up. Seventeen seafaring nations, whose merchantmen had carried the war-winning cargoes, gathered this week in London to plan the demise of the United Maritime Authority (due to expire March 2) and decide what part of the common effort for war should be turned to the common tasks of reconstruction...
Housing the men who will enter or reenter, today has been a very difficult problem. Over and above the desperate search for quarters suitable for married students, the details of room assignments in College buildings have caused many complications. An effort was made to return all ex-students to the Houses where they previously lived, and House Masters fitted in as many of their former members as possible within the restrictions of available space, price ranges, and academic class distinctions...
...years ago this term Harvard was a very different place; different in purpose, different in content, different in appearance. The spring that is now being unwound was then just being coiled, as the University prepared itself for what was to be a vital role in the nation's war effort...
...years consisted overwhelmingly of Freshmen; the upperclassmen from whom the Freshmen had formerly derived guidance and stimulation were gone; the few that were left were to a great extent concentrating in mechanical applications of the natural sciences, doing research in chemistry or physics for the war effort, or galloping through term after term with such concentrated loads of studies that there was no time for "irrelevant" thinking...
...last-minute effort to stave off a shortage worse than any of the war, the Office of Economic Stabilization boosted the sugar price, first time in five years. Next week, wholesalers will get an increase of .5? a lb.; the housewife will have to pay .7? more per lb. The increase will go directly into the pockets of Cuba's sugar-growers. For entirely proper reasons, they had refused to ship any sugar this year at the 1945 price of $3.10 per 100 lbs. f.o.b. Cuba...