Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...April 13, 1942, the President vested in BEW complete control of all public-purchase import operations. Mr. Jones has never been willing to accept that fact. He has instead done much to harass the administrative employes of the board in their single-minded effort to help shorten this...
...machines have for months been working at fuller capacity than ever before, absenteeism. But regardless of the cause, the U.S. will have to work harder to overcome the lag in production. Good news from the battlefronts must not be allowed to become bad news for the war effort...
Thoughtful soldiers and officials in London and Washington last week had to turn their attention to a serious new war problem: the exuberant optimism now sweeping the Allied world and lessening the Allied war effort. For proof that the effort had lessened, the U.S. Army had only to look at the production figures, down in May, down again in June...
...this prodigious endurance and recovery, the Russians have two factors to thank. Mainly, they can thank themselves and a national effort singly devoted to manning, equipping and re-equipping their successive armies. To a lesser but great extent, they can also thank U.S. and British aid. Published figures by no means convey the full effect of the planes, tanks, other weapons and materials delivered to the Red Army. Many, and in some sectors most, of the bombers harrying airdromes, railway junctions and supply centers are U.S. bombers, with Russian crews...
Queen Mary will build and boss her own war factory on her estate in Gloucestershire. Said London's Daily Mail: "She decided on this method of personal contribution to the war effort after she had visited dozens of Britain's leading factories. ..." What her little arsenal will make was not announced...