Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first stages, the third offensive was in effect an extension of the drive to relieve Stalingrad. But as the Russian thrust widened, it also became an effort to destroy the Germans' entire system of communications and supply in the Ukraine, to endanger Axis forces both in the Don-Volga area and in the Caucasus. The great object of the Red Army's winter strategy was now clear: to slice up the Germans' winter lines, keep the Wehrmacht on the defensive from Rzhev to the Caucasus...
...them, but they rolled steadily over the precipitous spurs of the Atlas Mountains toward the Tunisian border, 175 miles away. British and U.S. paratroops leapfrogged ahead into Tunisian airdromes. In seven days Anderson's English and Scottish soldiers had crossed the border and were meeting the first violent effort of Axis ground troops to stop them. Thirty German tanks and 400 infantrymen attacked and fell back, leaving eleven of their tanks behind...
...disease called keratoconjunctivitis, something like pinkeye, which pinked 2,000 San Francisco Bay welders last January (TIME, Jan. 26), was still active last week, had spread to Schenectady war workers and Manhattan civilians. It produces only a slight temporary defect of vision, but that is a mishap in war effort. Physicians are worried because a person may give it to someone else before he knows he has it. The examining fingers of one Manhattan eye doctor accidentally picked up the infection, gave it to 100 patients, the doctor's' family and himself (a virus, which is not killed...
...down in the past two months by an NBC character named The Great Malarkey. A loud-mouthed know-it-all with a noisome laugh, he breaks into two sustaining programs (Let's Fight, All Out For Victory) long enough to have his 200% American say about the war effort. His success as a listener-provoker has been provocatively virulent...
...gain in responsibility can be documented whether one turns to the factory floor, to Washington or whether one asks finally what class in America among civilians has in fact given more to and taken least from the war effort. Production-wise 1942 was a year of miracles, not the least of which was the change that came over the economy when the illusory defense era ended. In 1940 and 1941 Government tried to tell business how to run its plants without itself going to war. Japan forced the issue. And when Government itself accepted war and made its acceptance palpable...