Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure it will succeed: "the possibilities which Henry Adams foresaw seem likely to come true all at once; cynical pessimism among the leaders of mankind; a vast revival of semi-religious superstition; a brutish dictatorship by capital or labor. . . . But the difficulty of the task should only spur our efforts in the one realm which we have under some sort of immediate control: our minds...
Opening gun in the newly-formed Fight For Freedom Committee's offensive to spur the war spirit here will be the showing of two war films tonight at 8 o'clock in New Lecture Hall. The meeting is open to the public without charge...
...recent conduct of the war. Besides the action in Greece and Libya, the Battle of the Atlantic and the Battle of Britain, many, Britons have recently worried about the nation's war production. The Prime Minister had seen fit the week before to shift his ministerial backfield to spur production and transport (TIME, May 12), and now the British public hoped that these matters would have an airing...
...world). When slides threatened to hold up work at Coulee, he froze a hillside solid to keep it in place. At Shasta Dam, which he is now building in northern California, he ran a ten-mile conveyor belt smack over a mountain when railroads refused to run a spur to his construction camp...
...South's big textile industry (with 77% of the nation's capacity) also feels the defense spur. Up to last September (when contracts were last broken down by factory areas) Southern mills had received $19,127,000 worth of orders from the Army and Navy, 40% of the total. With civilian consumption up as well, these mills will produce more goods and employ more workers this year than ever before in their history...