Word: goals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army and Navy that the building of synthetic rubber factories was eating up too many critical component parts also needed in the construction of Navy escort vessels and the manufacture of high-octane gas. They demanded a cut in the rubber program down to 55% of the 1943 goal. Said one War Department official: "If the . . . program is not held at a true 55%, we will be marvelously equipped to fight a war in the Mississippi Valley...
...similar in its aims and accomplishments. The greatest good for the greatest number, though it may require the abandonment of American "rugged individualism," though some traditions are swept away and some groups hard-hit, though the activities and power of the people's government are extended, is our goal. So long as the New Deal is the best way to achieve this goal, the Crimson will support...
This is good but shipbuilders must do still better; the 1943 merchant ship goal is a 100% boost to 16,000,000 tons-less than the rate of production in hectic December but almost equal to Britain's entire merchant marine at War's beginning. Even so, most shipbuilders are sure they will make the goal with ships to spare. The means: 1) more prefabrication, 2) perfection of the assembly-line technique, 3) more welding and less riveting, 4) increased standardization of parts, gears and fittings. The chief danger now is shortage of materials...
...sense of place than is implied by "half-and-half" led him to books, to the studies of the sociologists, finally to Sicily itself. "... I began asking myself questions like these: Was it in the chemistry of human life for my relatives to become Anglo-Saxonized-the apparent goal of the melting pot theorists? . . . Was it necessary that they try to change themselves? Didn't America need their wisdom and their warmth, just as they and their children needed America's youth and vigor...
Everts took top scoring honors for the day, with three goals and an equal number of assists. George "Dick" Harding, Crimson scoring leader, had to be content with a single goal and three assists...