Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...largest iron and steel stronghold, with an annual production of close to 3,000,000 tons. "Building Magnitogorsk from the ground up caused more casualties than the Battle of the Marne," he says. The story of that tremendous enterprise and its terrific toll in human lives and effort is in his first book, Beyond the Urals...
...holding these lines was what chiefly occupied the Pacific Fleet in the first months after Pearl Harbor. The Gilbert and Marshall raids, offensive in themselves, were defensive in objective: they smelled out the Japs at a point where they threatened the new supply lines, and possibly averted an effort to break up those lines. Only when the lines were functioning was the Navy ready for even a limited offensive, and then the first offensive moves were partly intended to secure the Navy's southwest Pacific communications...
...Because so many other nations are involved in this global war effort of ours, the Combined Chiefs of Staff have many problems in which the final action can only be decided upon by the President and the Prime Minister. If the proposal to substitute a supreme military commander were adopted, the question of what becomes of the President's constitutional position as Commander in Chief is one to which some thought might be given...
...second feature, England's "Target for Tonight," is one of the most successful documentaries to develop from the Allied war effort. It's plot reaches the peak of realism, consisting entirely of an actual raid on an occupied port. The characters play their roles efficiently and quictly, as well they must, for their lives depend on it. The film is the best of all possible propaganda, actual truth...
...those who are rejected by the draft. Their number will be considerable, for its is estimated that one man out of every four will be rejected. Barred by disability from active war service, these men can make an important contribution to their generation, but unless a definite and responsible effort is made, they are in grave danger that only technical courses will be available to them...