Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military machine turned out in 90 days at OCS. Yet in the rush to satisfy the officer and technician needs of an 8,000,000-man army, the War Department has forgotten that the choice need not be between complete destruction of liberal education and an incomplete war effort. It is not a case of one or the other, but one and the other; the cake must be sacrificed, but we can have our bread...
Tribute was paid in a full page article of this week's issue of Look Magazine to President Conant. Stressing Conant's unpublicized contributions to the war effort from his chairman's position on the National Defense Research Committee, and his work on the Bavuch rubber commission, the magazine unstintingly praised his academic and military work...
...well as his war work, and the military conversion of Harvard to a total war effort in which Conant played a major role, the article predicted that the Harvard President's name would soon come into the spotlight. "Keep an eye on Conant of Harvard," it said, "-- scientist, educator, and man of ideas worth listening...
...position to put muscles and. flesh on their international airways system. And perhaps even fat in some places-with Lend-Lease planes. . . . Our farsighted British cousins . . . have seen that the masters of the air will be the masters of the planet, for as aviation dominates all military effort today, so it will dominate and influence all peacetime effort tomorrow." (Into the Congressional Record she put long passages from House of Commons speeches demanding that British interests be guarded...
...order was announced, WLB turned down the request of 180,000 meat packers for a wage increase. It was clear that the Administration has now definitely decided to stick by the Little Steel formula, come hell or high water. The new work week, with its overtime pay, was an effort to make all future wage demands appear unpatriotically selfish...