Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There undoubtedly were reasons why the Russians had made no effort to stress U.S. aid in their home press. Russians, after the Japanese, are perhaps the most suspicious and secretive people in the world. The lack of a European second front still angers them, and last week they resumed their storming for one. When thousands of Russians are being killed every day, they cannot go into ecstasies over U.S. planes and tanks. They have, moreover, a profound dislike of being treated as poor cousins...
...doing something about postwar aviation (TIME, Feb. 15, et seq.). A House of Lords committee headed by pudgy Lord Brabazon, onetime Air Minister and Minister of Aircraft Production, already had some recommendations to make: 1) the design of civil aircraft, lately sacrificed to Britain's all-out war effort, should be resumed; 2) engineering preparations should be made for converting bombers into airliners (one Lancaster has already been converted into a transport plane called the York); 3) the aircraft industry should be put to work building prototypes of new and better airliners...
...brought up now, he said, such problems might cause disputes that would impair United Nations unity and thus be detrimental to the war effort...
...assail it blindly as the sabotage of the treacherous, unamerican working man. The Rickenbacker crowd charges that unions are promoting it, Representative Johnson threatens labor with his "work or fight" bill, but as yet nothing constructive has been accomplished towards solving a problem which is rupturing the war effort. The solution lies in cooperation and constructive investigation of the underlying causes of absenteeism--investigation devoid of emotionalism and prejudice...
...cooperative effort with the colleges of the Greater Boston area, the Harvard Liberal Union, the Post-War council and the Crimson today will distribute a poll on post-war problems as part of a program aimed at stimulating student thought on these questions. The printed questionnaires will be handed out in the House Dining Halls at noon and at supper...