Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When prices dropped after the war, and with them the fishermen's take-home pay (based on a share in the profits), McHugh ordered each boat to limit its catch, in an effort to bolster the market. Crews that disobeyed were fined, or kept on the beach. The Federal Government refused to interfere, citing the exemption of unions from prosecution for trade monopoly under the Norris-LaGuardia Act. Then the union went a step further, ordered crews to refuse to sell fish for less than the former OPA prices...
...Jimmy separated. Three years later she got a Reno divorce, although Jimmy countered with a court order declaring the divorce of no effect in New Jersey. While their broken romance dragged through the courts and the tabloids, Dee-Dee went to Egypt to help the war effort...
...this was strictly in line with the increasingly intense Soviet campaign to stamp out every trace of Western bourgeois ideas in the Soviet Union. Behind this fantastic effort lay the real dilemma of Soviet philosophy-a contradiction that prevented Communist thinkers from developing any secure philosophy of their...
...entire working capital. A serious problem also faced the owners of healthy but quarantined horses. When the summer meeting at Rockingham ended last week, some 300 owners were left stranded - including scores of one-or two-horse owner-trainers who need purses to buy meat and potatoes. In an effort to give these horse-racing DPs a break, Rockingham Park got permission to open its fall meeting on Sept. 13, three weeks ahead of schedule...
...Jake has complete confidence in his "big service." He is so sure of it that he plans to break through his opponent's serve only once each set. The exception: when the opponent has a weak serve which can be broken without any extra effort. His one & only stroke weakness used to be a backhand that was too flat, but he worked on it patiently, finally got it steadied down until it was as effective as his forehand...