Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While we naturally are proud of our record in transporting the President, this information is offered not in an effort to extol the Jersey Central but to give you an appreciation of the unpublicized job done as a matter of special routine, year in and year out, by all the railroads who participate in transporting our Presidents...
...captured by the Allies was Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, 64, who piled up a great heap of German dead in his vain effort to take Moscow, and was known as Der Sterber ("The Dier"), because of his constant prating about the glory of death on the battlefield. On a roadside north of Hamburg last week British troops found Bock's body riddled by bullets, apparently from an Allied strafing plane...
From superiority in quantity and quality, Hitler grew progressively inferior in both. With V1, V-2 and jet-propelled planes he made a desperate effort to recover the advantage of weapons. But it was too late...
Feature of his forthcoming production of "Much Ado About Nothing" will be the lack of elaborate costuming or a curtain. He plans to combine these departures with imaginative lighting in an effort to simulate the theatre of Elizabethan England...
...Poonsters, however, have not been idle in their frantic efforts to foil the oncoming CRIMSON tide. Midnight in the Bow Street aviary has been the scene for oil burning as the board of ibitors plotted their revenge. Coming up with a plan they hope will succeed, the funnymen have spent the past week drafting strong arm plug uglies into their organization in an effort to crowd the roster with big time sluggers