Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rejected proposals to pay back to industry after the war 14% of the excess profits collected from it now. The committee also let stand the 94% excess-profits levy denounced as "a danger to the full success of the war production program" (because it gives industry no incentive for greater production) by Donald Nelson, Under Secretaries Patterson and Forrestal, and Admiral Land...
...planes, submarines and torpedo boats grabbed their chance, tried to knock out the bulk of Britain's remaining Mediterranean Fleet. Thanks partly to Colonel Halverson's roving bombers, the Axis failed in its main objective. But the British lost heavily, were able to claim only a limited success in getting the convoy through...
Failure would almost certainly be loss of the war. But the prize of success was freedom to turn the German Wehrmacht loose on Britain and the U.S.-probably to take all Asia, possibly to take most of Africa, perhaps to take Britain itself...
...hope," he said, "that many of you will take courses beyond the elementary stage this year," pointing out that a good number of Freshmen do so each year with great success. "Plan your work wisely," he advised, indicating that men with relatively low I.Q.'s nevertheless frequently make a good record at Harvard because they do their work as it is assigned and do not wait until the very last minute to prepare for tests or examinations...
Recently we have been grazing calmly on Russian success, confident that Germany was losing the war. We are still confident that we are going to win it in the distant future, but it was clear from yesterday's newsstands that we are not winning it now. The cold, undernourished, under-equipped, demoralized Germans are still a match for the Russians. They are strong enough to take Sevastopol; they may be strong enough to retake Kharkov and the gateway to the Caucasus and oil. While the Reds have stopped the strongest that Hitler has sent against them, the converse is also...