Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Krupps. In addition to these tangible assets German industry has a will to survive, and a wiliness to match. Other testimony presented before the subcommittee disclosed that when defeat became certain the Nazis took three steps, in an effort to insure postwar operation of the Krupp industries: 1) Government control was eliminated, so that Krupp became technically a "private industry"; 2) Nazis were expelled from Krupp personnel; and 3) the Krupps were accused of (but not prosecuted for) defeatist and anti-Nazi sentiments...
Mohamed Ali Jinnah, president of the Moslem League, wore an English-style hat, a smartly-cut lounge suit. Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana, Premier of the Punjab and spearhead of India's war effort, was dashing in a snow-white, plumed turban. Tara Singh, leader of the warlike Sikhs, was resplendent in a bright blue turban. He carried a kirpan (carved Sikh sword...
...Viceregal Lodge, Gandhi was mobbed by uncontrollable crowds. A bearded Sikh photographer pointed a camera at him. The non-violent Gandhi grabbed the camera, tried to smash it, failed. The astonished Sikh resorted to passive resistance, made no effort to recover his camera...
...association found little rhyme or reason in the doctors' decisions.* Dr. Bakwin seconds the association's conclusion that the current craze for tonsil removal "represents in the main a useless ' expenditure of time, effort and money." Further, he considers it responsible for many cases of pneumonia, bulbar poliomyelitis, deaths from overdoses of anesthetics (80 a year) and children's neuroses...
...result of 26 days of testimony, 240 exhibits, 750,000 words and God knows what expenditure of money, effort and human talent, two great U.S. companies and a group of their top officers were last week acquitted of criminal conspiracy. Thus was played out another tragicomedy of the U.S. antitrust laws...