Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reading room of the U.S. Consulate at Valencia, 40 young Spaniards sprawled in cozy comfort. They pored over OWI Spanish-language publications, gazed at the bright posters glorifying the U.S. war effort...
Richard Allen Knight, disbarred Manhattan lawyer who once stood on his head in front of the Metropolitan Opera House, had at some of his former cronies in another of his privately famed, privately printed brochures-this one as a Christmas throwaway. Title of this year's effort: Our Friends and Relatives All Stink, or Just Awearyin' for You. He reported happily that he had induced his ex-wife (Dorothy, daughter of the late Lewis Cass Ledyard Jr.) "to spend $2 on me for every $1 she spends on herself. . . . I am just not happy unless I have lots...
Last week Mark Miller paid the penalty. OPA ruled that his gas-rationing book for 1944 be withheld, and read him a stern lecture: the war effort would be promoted better by emphasizing "individual responsibility. . . rather than pointing out how easy it is to violate...
...when there has been so much need for unity in our country, and so few signs of it. From where I sit in Washington it is an appalling thing to see the separate groups and cliques and special interests separating out of the main body of the American war effort in order to work for their own special purposes and private ambitions...
...Sometimes these groups can be made to see reason-sometimes they can be browbeaten into cooperation-but by & large they represent a serious menace to the unity of the nation, to the war effort and to the lives and futures of American fighting...