Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With all this effort and sacrifice, you will never find a copy on any newsstand, and few civilians will ever even see an issue. Yet the editors of Yank are planning even further expansions, and are organizing the world's first attempt at "chain store journalism...
This week Douglas MacArthur's headquarters issued this communique: "Our air reconnaissance over the past weeks report a constant and growing reinforcement in all categories of enemy strength in the island perimeter enveloping the upper half of Australia. The enemy seems to be concentrating his main effort in preparation on this front...
...work stoppage, is again a manufacturing center. The R.A.F's return last week to Cologne, as thoroughly blitzed as any German city, implied acknowledgement either that reconstruction had been effective or that worthwhile targets remained intact. Net conclusion: a general slowdown of Germany's total war effort was as much as could be credited to heavy bombing, and it was probably worth the effort expended. To expect more, from the number of planes allocated to European bombing, was to expect too much...
Back in 1933, when the reputation of bankers was at an alltime low, one of the wisest of U.S. bankers, Russell Leffingwell, made a moving valedictory to the Pecora Committee. Said he: "We have made mistakes. Who has not? Our boast is that our effort during the whole postwar decade was constructively conceived towards the rehabilitation of America and the world after the war. . . ." Most U.S. bankers, while conceding that conditions after this war will be far different from conditions after World War I, would like to have another chance...
...putting up a real fight for more-and more profitable-business. Both companies have important technological improvements which they have been slow to push, pending a settlement of their competitive (and labor) problems. Meanwhile the release of some of the two companies' duplicating equipment could advance the war effort. If all their parallel wires were torn down, for example, it might release as much as 10,000 tons of badly needed copper...