Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German total offensive against Russia this year will constitute a supreme effort at the final destruction of Russian military power . . . gas from the two great factories outside Vienna that have been working at high pressure for the last six months will be used where
Haile Selassie is looking forward to the arrival of a U.S. Lend-Lease observer, whose job will be to stimulate trade with Ethiopia, and to find out what Ethiopia can contribute to the Allied war effort. The U.S. representative will find the Emperor adamant on one point: he is determined not to allow foreign economic penetration or ownership that might further cloud Ethiopia's sovereignty...
...combat planes-and the general confusion. What air transport there was in battle zones was done largely by combat pilots in war craft, which were loaded to the last limit of safety. Not until July 1942, when the Air Ferrying Command became Air Transport Command, was there an organized effort to fly cargo regularly over established routes...
...swing around the circle took place in the winter of 1941 and 1942-mostly in 1942. The conscription act was passed by Congress in September 1940. . . . Pearl Harbor was bombed on Dec. 7, 1941, and American businessmen were just as much against Hitler as was Mr. Davies. . . . The whole effort is to discredit Congress and at the same time to represent the Soviet dictatorship as an advanced democracy...
...Republican party and Democratic friends have now been waging the 1944 campaign for several months. Twelve months ahead of the usual schedule, the opposition is calling for new leadership. But rather than presenting the country with any leaders of its own, the entire effort is concentrated on blocking the existing directors of the country's war effort. The issue is nothing so substantial as criticism of the past record but instead great political principles manufactured to fit the situation of the moment...