Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After long meditation, cogitation and rumination, I have definitely made up my mind to run for re-election [to a third term]. ... I am ready to wage the most strenuous fight of my life in an effort to defeat the Fair Employment Practices Commission, the anti-poll tax bill, the anti-lynching bill and the $4 billion loan to England...
When overcrowded, short-of-help U.S. mental hospitals first appealed to Selective Service for help, they hoped for a few emergency workers to tide them over the crisis. What they got, from the "conchies," was a sustained, conscientious effort that has lifted mental-hospital standards throughout the country...
...months, OPA and the National Retail Dry Goods Association have wrangled over price ceilings. Last week OPAdminister Chester Bowles sharply charged Lew Hahn, the Association's general manager, with using "unchecked flimsy evidence . . . in a sorry effort to break down effective control over inflation...
...more prepared to build 2.9 million houses a year than it was prepared in 1940 to build 50,000 planes a year. A national effort was required to accomplish the plane program, and the same will obviously be required for housing. As yet, the effort has not got under way. The required size of the effort has not even been recognized...
...their desperate effort to move more troops than ever before, on top of holiday crowds, U.S. railroads have spread men and equipment paper thin. Last week they snapped in a dozen places. On the Pacific coast veterans overflowed regular military installations and had to be quartered in ships tied to piers while they waited from four to six days for eastbound trains. In the San Francisco area alone, more than 50,000 homesick G.I.s sweated out Christmas...