Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beyond national boundaries. Each country has the right to conscript soldiers for home defense, but relies on volunteers for overseas forces. Each Prime Minister is proud of the number who volunteer, but each knows how the restrictions, growing out of nationalism and past quarrels with Britain, handicap the war effort...
...Service Committee announced last results of one campaign and the inauguration of another, as it disclosed the results of this fall's blood drive and opened a two-day effort to sell Bond and Stamps for Christmas...
General Zhukov shares with most Russians the conviction that the German armies are not yet beaten, that they can be defeated only by a prodigious effort. He also knows that the Red Army, to win this winter, must show more offensive capacity than it has ever shown before...
...bringing out larger lists than ever before. McGraw-Hill has seen its number of "war books" jump 2%, 14%, 50% during the three successive years. Against the trade's 452 titles of 1939, 1942 will see the publication of at least 700 books technically concerned with the war effort. In Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., whose book department now handles approximately 3,000 technical titles, sales are five times greater than in pre-war years...
...effort to clear the College atmosphere of subversive gossip, the Crimson Network tonight will broadcast the first results of a series of investigations being conducted by the Harvard Rumor Clinic...