Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldiers must be keenly conscious that the full strength of the nation is behind them; they must not go into battle puzzled or embittered over disputes at home which adversely affect the war effort. Our small sacrifices should be personal even more than financial. They should be proof positive that we never forget for a moment that the soldier has been compelled to leave his family, to give up his business, and to hazard his life...
...primrose path. It is time for us to face up. We must actually materially lower the American standard of living during the war. We must tax to the limit every dollar, corporate and individual, that is capable of bearing a tax. . . . That limit is reached only when the war effort itself is threatened. All else must be sacrificed...
...months Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell has been under fire in Washington, London and New Delhi. Critics said the new Ledo Road from India to China (TIME, Oct. 11) was not worth the effort; construction would take too long, even at best it would never carry sufficient supplies...
Utah's Senator Elbert Duncan Thomas: he fought throughout the year for a billion-dollar veterans' re-education program for improved child-care services, and after a decade of effort got a proxime accessit for a U.S. appropriation to help state schools (TIME, March...
...product as something that crawls around cornfields, do not realize how vitally it is needed at the front. Now top Army expediters are out, telling the men, in a tone of real desperation, that "there is no other industry whose men are so directly contributing to the actual war effort...