Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bold Effort. For eight days the Gimo had pondered, on the cool heights of Kuling, what he might do to save China from deepening disaster. Last week he flew back to sweltering Nanking with his answer-a program of fiscal reform to combat runaway inflation. China would have a new dollar, called the gold yuan, backed by $200 million worth of gold and silver and U.S. dollars. The fantastically depreciated old Chinese dollars must be traded in, at the rate of 12 million old for one new. The government pledged itself not to print more than 2 billion...
...Anatoli Gromov, onetime secretary of the Russian embassy. Miss Bentley testified last week that on one occasion Gromov had given her $2,000 for her information. Currie readily admitted knowing Gromov. "I met him at social occasions and was entertained at his house on one occasion. He made no effort to draw me out. The conversation was on cultural matters...
...bumper crop of their own athletes. At Henley-on-Thames last week, the University of California's smooth eight-oared crew got off to a slow start, but never had to raise the beat too high. The coxswain simply called for a "big ten" (increasing the effort, but not the beat, for ten strokes) and Cal smoothly spurted into the lead. California won easily over Great Britain's Leander Boat Club and Norway's Fana Row Club...
Victorious Greek troops squeezed a tighter & tighter grip on the Mount Gramos area last week. Before them, General Markos Vafiades' desperate rebels mounted one counterattack after another in an agonized effort to save the last escape hatches for moving their heavy equipment into Albania. Rebel prisoners said that Markos and his "government " had already crossed the border...
...jets at ordinary speeds is low compared with conventional airplanes. Propeller-driven planes are pushed forward by the reaction from the blast of air forced backward by the prop. When the plane is standing still on the ground with its propeller roaring, all the engine's effort is wasted on merely moving air. None goes into forward motion; the propulsive efficiency is zero. When the plane is in the air, the propulsive efficiency is high. Propellers are designed in such a way that when the plane is flying at full speed, the air blast from them washes backward...