Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regard this turned-about state of affairs as most delightful. The U.S. was indeed the promised land-for men. How different, he exclaimed wistfully, were things in China: "In Chungking, boy students running after girl students find it a very hard job indeed. A boy would often exhaust the strength of nine oxen and two tigers and still not succeed. If their endeavors were used in America, American girls would consider them as most ideal sweethearts...
Coxswain of the 1933 and 1934 University of Washington crews, Love served as commanding officer of a destroyer escort during the war and was stationed finally in Tokyo. His return brings the Charles River staff back to pre-war strength...
...must stay strong. It is "imperative," he said, that the draft act be extended. "Should the occasion arise, our military strength will be used to support the purposes and principles of the [UNO] Charter...
...figures again. By July 1 this year, the Army will need 1,550,000 men for occupation forces, home defense and replacements. Within a year it will be cut to 1,070,000-a figure it must maintain until the need for occupation is over. Of the total Army strength, the Air Forces want...
...usual magic. At week's end Kaiser announced triumphantly that U.S. Steel and Great Lakes Steel (subsidiary of National Steel) had promised enough steel. Now Joe & Henry would not have to depend on aluminum. Nevertheless, they obligingly piled some 460 lbs. atop a piece to show its strength...