Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farm Strategy. Three times in the 77th Congress the farm bloc had been whipped in its effort to write the cost of farm labor into the farm parity formula. Last week the House Agricultural Committee quietly approved a bill which would do it all over again. Although the bill would add another $3½ billions to the nation's food costs, the committee did not bother to ask the opinion of OPA Boss Prentiss Brown-who had fought the issue as a Senator last year-or of Economic Stabilizer James F. Byrnes. Said the bill's sponsor, Georgia...
...Personnel Office to tackle. Toughest problem now facing the department is the dining hall short-age. This situation has become so acute that an appeal was made recently in Cambridge churches urging people to help; and appeals have also been made to the Navy men's wives in an effort to utilize all available labor in Cambridge. Strange paradox of the situation is that in some occupations the department still has a waiting list...
...letter to President Conant. "I wish to express the approval of the War Manpower Commission of this project. I am gratified that the University is prepared to render this valuable service to war industry. The need for training in business and industrial management to serve the expanding war effort is critical...
...industry last week was face to face with its greatest single challenge since Pearl Harbor-an immediate and terrific expansion in escort vessel construction. To do the job requires not only a mighty effort by giant shipbuilders and steelmakers but also an almost fantastic production boost by thousands of small partsmakers of whom most U.S. citizens have never heard...
...about the relation of the armed forces to the College fell to Colonel Philip Fox, Commanding Officer of the Army Signal Corps at the Electronic School. Dean Paul H. Buck then presented the alternative to the Freshmen of taking either regular liberal courses or those pertinent to the war effort...