Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late autumn of 1941 a select group of British naval men, volunteers for a mission of danger and hardship, proceeded to a lonely country house and began a strange program of training...
...Hardship." In planning his daily, McKinnon neatly got around the newsprint shortage. When the WPB refused to let him transfer his job-printing quota to a newspaper allocation, he put together his authorizations for job work, circulars and the Progress-Journal, kept out of WPB's newspaper limitation jurisdiction by not applying for second-class mailing rights...
Turned down by War Manpower's production urgency committee on a plea to lift his employment ceiling from 42 to , McKinnon won an appeal to the local War Manpower Commission. His argument, backed by Mayor Harley Knox, labor, religious and other groups: there was "community hardship" in that freedom of the press existed only for Colonel Copley's papers...
...This situation has worked excruciating hardship on military personnel. Into the area are now coming American wounded and American air crews for rest. . . . Their Miami interlude represents their only chance to see their wives and families. . . . Both the Army and Navy seem unable or unwilling to house these myriad families. Women and children walk the streets...
...underfed and worried Japan no relief can be seen, only years of continued hardship; no group could present any alternative. The Japanese had only Tojo's chilly comfort: "When opposing camps are exhausted, the side whose faith in victory has been shaken and whose fighting spirit has been lost will go down in defeat...