Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President created a national industrial recruiting agency, to merge all State and territorial affiliates of the U.S. Employment Service. Object: full registration, and coordinated recruiting of U.S. labor in order to maintain war production...
...German people, he admitted, had already given all they conveniently could, "in consideration of the tense situation regarding textile supplies. Nevertheless . . . as long as a single object of winter clothing remains in the Fatherland, it must go to the front." Though he spoke of shortages at home, Dr. Goebbels did not give a rounded picture of Germany facing its third wartime Christmas. He did not say that each German soldier in frozen Norway has had to give up one of his three blankets for use in Russia. He did not tell of a new rubber-saving rule which forbids workers...
...object of the discussion is to set down as clearly as possible the general principles that must be our aim in the Far East. It is hoped the debate will show both the principles and the factors that must be overcome in their attainment...
Patrick Scanlon, William Cahill and Peter Roddy, tenders of Tuskar Light, last week saw a shiny, globular object float into the area swept by the light's beam. It was a mine. Slowly the waves carried it toward the rock. The three marooned men banked on the chance that tides might carry the mine to one side, but each wave closed the gap, a few inches at a time...
...actors chasing girls and women having babies. But the distaff side of the show makes itself felt with sultry, hip-shaking "Souse American Way" Carmen Miranda (The Streets of Paris}, brassy Ella Logan, peppery Dance-stars Rosario & Antonio, song-&-dance routines, puppeteers, jugglers, performers on a conch-like object called a sing-a-tina...