Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third-term campaign of 1940 delayed the rearmament program by many months, impelled the President to give assurances against war involvement that the world situation refuted, and contributed disastrously to the unpreparedness psychology of the people. If the same political considerations, geared now to a fourth-term effort, are permitted to postpone or obscure candid postwar statements of national policy, the eventual cost may be even greater...
...roused by the temporary deferment of OPA's General Counsel David Ginsburg, no prominent young Government official has cared to risk a repetition. President Roosevelt's policy has been to let the draft have its way with them, at no matter what the cost to the war effort. The reason "Cap" Krug got no deferment was that he refused to permit it. Last week his Clinton, Tenn. draft board put him in 1-A and Krug, ex-University of Wisconsin footballer, was expecting to drape his 6 ft. 3 in., 235-lb. frame in a uniform...
...harrumphed 58-year-old Major General (retired) Frank Rudolph Schwengel, president of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., "that the finely made beverage spirits produced by American distillers for the war effort should go into hair tonic, cosmetics and shoe polish, while substandard commercial alcohol from Cuba goes into the American stomach...
Since early in the war Nazi leaders have spared no effort to keep that morale high. U-boat crews have been treated like the supermen of the super race. When a sub comes in from a long cruise it is met at its base by a brass band, cheering dockworkers, flower-throwing civilians and a quayside loaded with the handsomest girls obtainable, primed to give their all for the returning heroes...
Also alarming is the prospect that Anopheles gambiae may continue its progress north and breed in the myriad ponds and pools of northern Egypt, causing a disastrous epidemic which would hinder the war effort in Cairo...