Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been sent with specific war requests: e.g. "for a bomb to drop on Hitler." More surprising was the fact that $1,259,000-almost a fifth of the total-had come from 50 donors who sent a check every pay day or at other regular intervals-"for the war effort." The Treasury identified some of the regulars...
...their representatives in Congress were not. The House promptly passed the Senate resolution for a full investigation (TIME, Sept. 17), after the Democratic steam roller had beaten off an attempt by Republicans to give them equal representation on the investigating committee. After that, the G.O.P. abandoned its effort to continue the inquiry through the 1946 elections. The committee (six Democrats, four Republicans) must now report by next...
...effort to make the unsalable salable, the Surplus Property Board was frantically trying to convert cartridge belts into flyswatters." snowshoes into cocktail tables and tourniquets into book straps. But however big the turnover, it would not be big enough. The SPB still listed for sale some horse-drawn Army ambulances, vintage...
Whiz Quiz. Veteran Funnyman Colonel Stoopnagle (Frederick Taylor) played the part, without obvious effort, of a know-nothing layman. Clifton Fadiman played the part, without obvious effort, of the omniscient explainer. Whenever Fadiman got too hot to handle, Colonel Stoopnagle was to order the orchestra to play. There was a good bit of music in the half hour...
Sinews of Peace. If tired steel workers hoped that the end of war orders would mean a cut in overtime, they were disappointed. Last week, in a back-breaking effort to keep pace with steel orders, many steelmen were still putting in 60 to 96 hours a week. Mills were operating at close to 80% of capacity, highest peacetime production ever, with no let up in sight this year...