Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, before he had time to make these dope stories look good, Prich went off to the Army. His draft board reclassified him from 4F to lA; the Administration, sensitive to criticism of its under-38 bachelors, made no effort to defer him. Said Prich typically: "I guess they scraped the bottom of the manpower barrel and now they have to take the barrel...
...been forced to use it ever since, but they have never licked the high-cost problem. Says an American oil industry expert: "If the master technicians of the world [the Germans] were unable to work out a competitive product by this coal hydrogenation process after almost 30 years of effort, if the British failed to develop an economic method with the help of huge government subsidies, it is highly unlikely that the U.S. will find the answer...
...Senator Ellison DuRant ("Cotton Ed") Smith, all warmed up and ready to go, hit the air with a diatribe on Americans and the War Effort. Blowing like a grampus, garrumphy, irascible Cotton Ed got so interested in his work (denouncing New Deal regimentation) that he skipped a paragraph, turned the page of his script and came upon the middle of an entirely unrelated sentence about gasoline rationing. Twenty interminable, script-shuffling seconds later listeners on 118 stations heard his frustrated bellow...
...effort to reach any civilian students who might enroll for either Army or Navy flying, the Cadet Committee is circularizing the Houses. However, Perkins announced, they want it made clear that all students are welcome, whether they live in the Houses...
...Albert Einstein has added to his effort to unify theories of gravitational and electrical forces an attempt to solve U.S. Navy mathematico-physical problems (TIME, July 5). His aureole of white hair droops in summer's heat, a string upholds his cheap blue denim pants. Says he: "Here we cook with water." Interpreted a colleague: "We perform no miracles." A current item of Einsteiniana titillating the Institute: on one of his blackboards bearing a brain-taxing mathematical equation, the charwoman found the word "Erase." On another blackboard, marked "Do not erase," was blazoned the formula...