Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disappearance of the former official policy and the lack of a new one to take its place. With all men from 18 to 38 and from 1-A to 4-F subject to the New Manpower Commission, colleges must either be abandoned or integrated more fully with war effort training. They are now directly dependent on Washington orders, but the long-awaited word seems to have stuck in official throats...
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...factoried Latin American countries. Already shipped (to Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Mexico): six small textile mills, a blast furnace, a storage battery factory. Some Government enthusiasts were talking rosily of finding as many as 500 plants that U.S. owners would be glad to sell to eager Latin American buyers (no effort is being made to take plants that are not willingly sold), but lack of shipping is apt to limit that sharply. Nonetheless, where a U.S. plant can provide an essential commodity that would otherwise have to be continuously shipped in manufactured form, U.S. authorities would now prefer to send...
...University reveals Navy occupation of Yard for duration. General Hershey tells College audience every able man must aid war effort...
DECEMBER 8, 1941--University announces no fundamental changes on day following Pearl Harbor. Student Body gathers in Sanders Theatre to hear President ask Congress for war. Faculty members ask for united effort. Jap students here interned. Forum of President Conant, Ralph Barton Perry, Dean Landis, and Loren MacKinney '42 pledge united support of college...