Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Originally scheduled for last Thursday but cancelled due to the hurricane, the door-to-door collection of the Cambridge Russian War Relief will take place this Friday, local headquarters of the drive at 36 Dunster Street announced yesterday. In part of a Greater Boston effort, city trucks will pick up bundles labeled "Russian Relief" left in front of homes, at fire stations, or at the Central Square Y.M.C.A...
...that "The Arab peoples still had done next to nothing to win favors at the peace table" is most unfair. You seem to have forgotten that Iraq, an Arab country, has declared war on the Axis Powers voluntarily, and has since contributed in every way to the war effort. It is a base for our Allies, and all the country's economy, manpower, communication, and transportation have been used to defeat the common enemy. The people have endured all hardships without complaint...
...reason (TIME, Jan. 3). The man picked to succeed him was Henry Crerar, then commander of the I Canadian Corps. Publicity-hating General Crerar was almost unknown to the Canadian people, and since many Canadians do not think that being colorful is good form, Ottawa war councilors made no effort to color him up. Although Crerar used to be so reticent that he had no cronies and few close acquaintances, he did become fast friends with Montgomery and renewed his old friendship (from World War I) with Field Marshal Sir Alan F. Brooke, chief of the Imperial General Staff...
Typhoon Days. The typhoon was about to break against the next layer of Jap defenses. But by definition the typhoon moves in orderly fashion, always in the same counterclockwise direction,* about a single center. And U.S. Army authorities were uncomfortably aware that the United Nations effort against Japan still had four centers, largely unrelated...
...With this lesson in mind, the Western powers, in their desire to help China's national reconstruction, will wish to assure themselves that China would not become a potential enemy to them in the future. Japan, they would figure, has a population of 70 million, yet so much effort and sacrifice has been called for in order to defeat her. China has a population of 450 million souls, which may be increased to 600 million in thirty years. If China then threatens the democratic world, how much more strength would be required to cope with...