Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little, all these manufacturers face the same terrific odds. Main reason for the lag in escort ships has been a series of Washington miscalculations. First, the Navy underestimated the real job. Then there was a drive for landing barges. The merchant shipping program itself has put enormous strain on all ship suppliers. More recently, the synthetic rubber program and high-octane gasoline program collided with the escort program for parts...
...when even newspapers found it good business to carry daily accounts of Amos' trial for murder. Albert Lasker, then Lord & Thomas advertising head, finally had to phone the pair to "get Amos out of that spot fast." The awful nationwide suspense was beginning to tell. The strain had become too great for thousands of parent & teacher groups...
Examination jitters have caused a serious outbreak of lawlessness among students in regard to returning books taken out overnight from House libraries. In view of the extra strain put on the House libraries from the unavailability of Boylston this semester, the situation has assumed such proportions that it threatens the continuance of the honor system used in House and all other University libraries...
...signs of Japanese stress & strain add up to a choice of difficult routes to Tokyo: 1) by overwhelming naval forces, bypassing the Japs' outer chains of islands and striking straight at Japan itself; 2) by air from China's waiting bases-still waiting because they cannot now be supplied; 3) island-by-island up the long ladder from the Solomons and New Guinea...
...second usually implies a goal that can never be reached: "the shipwrecked man who has tried vainly to signal for help and finally reverts to calling his mother's name over & over until he is exhausted is an example of how thinking breaks down under the strain of failure...