Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henderson, a practical economist who would rather be right than popular, had left many a good work behind him. He had calculated nearly to the hour when the U.S. war effort would run into steel and transportation shortages, had done his best to make skeptics see the handwriting on the wall. He had mapped U.S. strategy against inflation, had created the job of Price Boss, had helped get the price laws through Congress. And despite all the mistakes, all the red tape and all the difficulties, he had by & large kept prices down...
...able Correspondent Betty Kirk (Covering the Mexican Front) observed, Mexico had found nationalism under Avila Camacho and war. Mexico's wholehearted war effort was testified to last week by the STational Defense Ministry. Summing up the military achievement, the Ministry forecast that by the end of next year 1,600,000 Mexicans will have had military training, the bulk of them as a citizens' militia, with weekly practice sessions. Day by day thousands of Mexicans not yet eligible for induction are volunteering. Consignments of equipment are arriving from the U.S. The Mexicans have already found a name...
Best sign of the vitality of their effort: while the Nation and the New Republic continued to rumble along without much upsurge in circulations (11% and 7% respectively-both to roughly 27,000), Common Sense since Pearl Harbor has boosted its circulation from...
...with deep concern ... that we have witnessed ah effort now publicly endorsed in the U.S. by the Archbishops and Bishops of a sister Christian communion, which constitutes a religious minority in this country, to set the relation of Protestant Christianity to Hispanic America in a perspective which does violence both to historical truth and contemporary fact. We deplore the pretension of the Roman Catholic hierarchy to circumscribe the religious freedom of Protestant Christians in the proclamation of their faith, while by implication reserving for themselves the right to the universal proclamation of their...
...turn out that, with one stroke, Businessman Crowley (who is still the $50,000-a-year boss of Standard Gas & Electric) accomplished far more patent reform than Professor-Trustbuster Thurman Arnold with all his fulminations about how the U.S. patent system encouraged the Nazis to "strangle" the U.S. war effort. Practical experience with taking the monopoly out of foreign patents during the war should give the U.S. some valuable lessons in how to limit domestic patent monopolies later...