Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After our years of effort at morale building to boost production in our plants, TIME [Sept. 11] tops them all with its story on the Grumman Co. and the planes it builds. I'm sure that all of the 22,000 people in our organization have read this story, and that their pride in their organization has been given a real boost. Each one will work just a little harder to see that the Navy continues to get the planes they need-when they need them...
None of these, nor any combination of these, will serve the enemy for more than a limited time. But to compress the limits on that time will require the expenditure of American and Allied effort out of all proportion to the book strength of the enemy...
Second Objection. Step No. 1, say the bankers, is for each country to get its budget under control, stabilize its own price level, and roughly balance its external payments and receipts. The Bretton Woods effort to fix exchange rates, even flexibly, they say, is only a third step which must be preceded by political and economic stability, nation by nation...
...Slavism" and see to it that the German enemy, which has twice hurt Russia, will never divide the Slavic peoples again; 4) memorialize German bestiality as it was revealed at Lidice and Maidenek; 5) occupy itself with human honor, conscience and soul; 6) call on Russians for a new effort of creativeness and rouse them to transfer the heroism they have shown in war to achievements in peace ; 7 ) explore England and America, whose aid in the war will not be forgotten...
Last June Alabama's desk-farmer, Senator John H. Bankhead, headed the Congressional bloc that shoved through a law forcing the Government to make every effort to buy cotton, wheat and other farm products at 100% of parity.* Cotton prices had soared over 100% since 1939, but John Bankhead wanted more: specifically, he wanted cotton prices to rise nearly 1? more a pound. Because cotton and wheat production have been consistently greater than domestic consumption, the law of supply & demand had long worked against Bankhead's dream of top prices for these commodities. Futures prices in the open...