Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least some exposure should be made, even if before a secret tribunal, so that unbiased records and facts may be made available to those entrusted with our war effort and so that the public may, after the war, have this on record to judge fairly the progress and wisdom of our leadership...
...Command knows that a final effort might well clear Russia of the alien invader, perhaps lead to his collapse. The Red generals have learned well the lessons of past defeat and victory. They know that the Wehrmacht must not be given time to catch its second wind, to mount a counteroffensive, to build new defense lines...
Local Board No. 18 replied that Curran was classified 2-A as "the leader of a union vital to the war effort." But Colonel Arthur V. McDermott, New York City's draft director, had already announced: Curran was a draft delinquent for having left the country without notifying his board. McDermott personally certified the case to the appeals board. The decision: Curran is 1A, has until Oct. 15 to appear before the local board. Said its chairman, Baptist Clergyman Francis K. Shepherd: "We're a draft board and we have certain obligations to discharge...
...Malay Peninsula. It was conceivable that last week's threats were a nerve war. Lord Louis, still in London a fortnight ago, could not prepare a major campaign with a twist of his wrist. An invasion of the thick, mountainous jungle terrain of Burma called for a major effort, as the British had already found...
...bustling Norfolk Naval Air Station moved a truck with six small trailers, each carrying four depth charges ready to be loaded into the waiting anti-submarine patrol planes. Suddenly a little blaze sprang up on one of the trailers. A station fire engine dashed up in a brave, hopeless effort to halt the fire. But before it could go into action the 24 cordite-loaded charges exploded like a salvo of blockbusters in a blinding flash and shattering concussion. The toll: 25 dead*; 249 injured. The blast and fire wrecked a hangar and eight barracks, damaged other hangars filled with...