Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President attacked the "little troubles" as if they were very big ones indeed. He turned the full pressure of his Administration squarely on Congress in an effort to put through the catchall legislative program he had recommended (TIME, Sept...
...Winter's Tale" is one of Shakespeare's quite minor comedies, despite the major effort now on the boards. The present production ambitiously leaves the book almost intact, and expensively surrounds it with more drapery and costumed elaboration (credit Stewart Chaney) than theatre-goers have seen in a month of twelfth-nights...
...world where Canada means Eskimos, Indians and red-coated Mounties who look like Nelson Eddy. To right such misconceptions, the Government last week decided to toot a more unromantic horn. To replace the temporary Wartime Information Board, born in 1942 solely to publicize Canada's war effort, the Government created the Canadian Information Service...
...Knows. The biggest cheer of the day, from a gallery of St. John's undergrads, went to President Barr. Said he: "Believe me, sir, this is not a matter of mere sentimentality. Every real teacher knows the tremendous working advantage of surroundings that incite the learner to renewed effort." He called up the ghosts of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Samuel Chase and Thomas Stone. "These men," he cried, "not only signed the Declaration of Independence. They exerted themselves . . . for the people they had helped free by founding . . . St. John's and by choosing its present campus." The president...
...Krug: in five years the U.S. had more than doubled its industrial production, had out-produced not only its foes but all its allies as well, had hurled $186 billion worth of weapons and supplies at the Axis. The report's most remarkable highlight: "Great as our war effort was, at no time during the struggle did it absorb more than two-fifths of our total national output." At first glance, the transition to peace looked just as good. In his second "Report on Progress of Reconversion," Krug announced that August civilian production...