Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reforms for making America over, no matter how attractive, cannot but dislocate the war effort. If we lose or delay the winning of the war, social gains will be scarce for a generation...
...maximum production of war essentials, the first civilian necessity, it is necessary to bring high-cost producers into action; levy drastic excess-profits taxes so "the low-cost producer does not get away with anything consequential"; ditch labor rules (beyond the health safeguards) that restrict effort...
Chocolate Saints. U.S. children will be expected to contribute to the war effort by going without chocolate Saint Nicholases, Saint Valentine's hearts, Easter bunnies and eggs and all other chocolate novelties for the duration. So ruled the War Production Board...
...second week of their culminating blow - and the tenth of Marshal Semion Timoshenko's long effort to break into the Don elbow and relieve Stalingrad from the German rear - the Russians won the positions from which they must now fight for the victory. They cleaned the Germans from a great, thinly defended patch, 50 to 100 miles deep, within the Don bend and west of the corridor between the Don and the Volga. They forced the Germans to establish a defense line on the Don's eastern bank, with their backs to Stalingrad, facing the Russians...
...Eugene O'Neill, Robert Sherwood, S. N. Behrman, Philip Barry, Sidney Howard, Thomas Wolfe, John Mason Brown, and John Dos Passos, Baker was able to blaze a spectacular trail. These names above are no dead listing of the college's contribution to a forgotten art. They signify the great effort that was expended, and then was suddenly curtailed...