Word: goals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scouring the waters with surface and aircraft, knew it well. So did the National Maritime Union, which numbers its losses at sea in the hundreds. So did men on the production front, officials like Shipping Tsar Rear Admiral "Jerry" Land, and shipbuilders who had suddenly had a strange goal set before them: produce ships faster than the Jerries can sink...
...Stanton, P.B.H. Social Service Committee member, who was in charge of the endeavor, expressed his gratitude to the undergraduate body for its "tremendous response." Asserting that the Committee had set its goal of 1000 books, which was surpassed, with only faint hope of its attainment. Stanton congratulated the College for its "very healthy and heartening spirit...
...form of internationalism is a cloak for a dominant group. To him a balanced power is fairer than any World Federation which would be simply a disguise for Anglo-American hegemony. One need not be a Utopian, however, to feel that Spykman's world order excludes any finite goal, any emotional appeal, or any basis for action. Even Karl Marx, after all, had to postulate a goal in which his discouraging dialectic no longer worked...
Because last night's dimout failed even to approach the goal set by the military authorities, the regulations may extend 15 miles inland. Cambridge officials were planning to paint over the streetlights so as to darken them until suitable shields could be constructed to prevent any light from glowing upward, but the dissatisfaction of the Army and Navy over the effect measures taken thus far have had may necessitate even more drastic action here...
From these assumptions, the committee reached the conviction: i) that the free-enterprise system must be made safe against any assaults of collectivism; 2) that a "free-market area" must be established between the U.S. and the United Kingdom, aimed toward universal free trade as the ultimate goal of a peaceful world. One conclusion: world reconstruction will succeed faster on the basis of joint policies than constitutional federations such as Union...