Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Harry Truman, who called for limited tax reductions in his message to Congress, came a note of caution. Said he: "We must reconcile ourselves to the fact that room for tax reductions at this time is limited. A total war effort cannot be liquidated overnight." But from an election-conscious Congress, the President was likely to get more than he had called...
...Emperor Haile Selassie I made a last desperate effort to forestall an Italian invasion by offering to "rent" as much as half of Ethiopia to a big U.S. or British oil company. An agent for Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. promptly signed up. As such a concession might involve the U.S. in just the kind of international complications the Emperor wanted, the State Department forbade Standard to take it up. But Ethiopian oil rights still looked like a plum...
They had made some contribution to the Allied war effort by their guerrilla activities, though the brunt of Chinese resistance was borne by Chiang's troops. They were dedicated to "bourgeois democracy" now, to Communism ultimately. Of Chungking they wanted a "coalition" government, a weird, hybrid sort of ad ministration in which they would share overall control but keep their army and state...
Quisling made a determined effort to keep himself wrapped in the noisome rags of his old preeminence. When he heard testimony that he had left the Royal Palace a rat-ravaged, bottle-strewn shambles, he replied stiffly: "I took care of the Palace very well indeed-you are trying to besmirch my good name...
...world-shaking scientific discovery has yet come out of Soviet Russia. But the visiting scientists noted with surprise that throughout the war Russian scientists, unlike those in the U.S. and Britain, had devoted their main effort to long-range, fundamental research. Langmuir & Co. further discovered that the Russians, through sheer volume of effort, already led the world in some fields of study (e.g., geology and soil science). In Moscow, they found famed Physicist Peter Kapitza presiding over one of the world's best-equipped electronics laboratories-where a photoelectric cell ten times as good...