Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Randy") Burke and Alastair Mackintosh. Lily Pons, Jeanette MacDonald were at Miami; so was Broadway's Choo Choo Johnson. Drew Pearson and Walter Winchell, whose work often takes him to Florida in the winter season, went on writing columns denouncing other people's interference with the war effort. Ranking victim of the transportation squeeze was wealthy Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, "Queen of Palm Beach Society," who was desperate for lack of a train reservation to the nation's capital. Her daughter, Washington's Louise Cromwell Atwill, first wife of General MacArthur, third wife of Lionel Atwill...
Britain is tired. Britain, for that good and human reason, is as determined as the Russians to end the war as soon as the generals think it possible. For that effort, Britons summon all the energy, all the bravery, all the power left to them in their fifth year of war. They know that when Hitler falls the task will not be done. They are in the Pacific war, too. But, regrettably, it can never be so real and near to the people of Britain. For them, the great task left will be the task of peace. In that task...
...still, so grim battles have proved, a Faith. Not fanatical, it engages the one talent that could be called uniquely British: to change without fuss, to change conservatively. At its core, perhaps, is belief in man and his dignity. The effort to define the Faith continues in the life and the thought of Britain...
...Anglo-American air attack on Germany must be regarded as our chief offensive effort at the present time. Until the middle of 1943 we [the British] had by far the largest force in action. As a result of enormous transportations across the Atlantic . . . the U.S. bomber force in this island now begins to surpass our own and will soon be substantially greater still, I rejoice...
Head in hands, sportswriter Tod Schoonover stared at the telephone, suddenly grabbed it. Sacramento's Chamber of Commerce had tried to outbid Tacoma, raised a scrawny $8,000 and quit. He would make one last effort. Frenetically Schoonover phoned sporting friends-bowling alley operators, golfers, promoters, cafe owners. Ninety minutes later he had promises of $22,000. Yubi Separovich added $2,000. He and Edmonds then started after every solvent fan in town. In 48 hours they had $53,000, barely caught the night train to Los Angeles for the P.C.L. meeting...