Word: goals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chairman Donald Marr Nelson reported: 1942's war production reached $59 billion ($9 billion under the original goal); 1943's goal is $106 billion and is "most formidable." But the nub of his report was on civilian prospects...
...lusts of the Axis powers will be in vain, unless we can win the churches to a new crusade for the spirit exemplified by Jesus' Good Samaritan. World justice and human welfare, rather than comfort and wealth within one's own nation, must be the Christian goal...
Winston Churchill announced that in May the Allies, for the first time, destroyed more submarines than the Ger mans build in a month. Exactly this had long been the goal of the anti-submarine campaign, but early this year the men in charge of the campaign did not expect to attain such a rate of destruction before 1944. If, as is generally supposed, the Germans have been building around 25 U-boats a month, the Allied bag may well have averaged one U-boat a day. Unofficial reports that the Germans lost 30 submarines were probably close to the mark...
...democratic countries. Their central source of error was the failure to see that an order of world power must be based on the realities of power. Through this half-blindness the democratic leaders groped after the mirages of modernity: Mirage 1. Believing that foreign policy's chief goal is peace, pacifists were responsible for helping to bring on the two great World Wars. "Until all the nation's rivals and potential enemies are irrevocably committed to the pacifist ideal, it is a form of criminal negligence to act as if they were already committed to it." Mirage...
...Edsel was always in the background. When Henry Ford confidently stated that he could build 1,000 planes a day, it was up to Edsel to prove that the company could at least build 500 planes a month at Willow Run (he lived to see the goal in sight). The teacher still created problems for the pupil to solve...