Word: task
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mobilization of a country's industries, factories, economic resources from a peacetime to a war basis is a tremendous task for any nation, even for Germany, highly militarized though she is. To be able to carry this change through in a matter of hours if necessary, Chancellor Hitler last week created a "permanent economic general staff" headed by slim, taciturn, 59-year-old War Minister Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg...
...difficult as balancing the U. S. budget is the task of devising cinema plots in which opera stars may be induced to perform less self-consciously than opera stars. Last week two of Hollywood's attempts to skirt this problem appeared, with varying success...
...sunny June morning in 1919, an energetic, 52-year-old French abbe named Ernest Dimnet arrived in Manhattan to raise funds for the War-devastated Lille University. The abbe had had little formal preparation for his task. He had grown up in a provincial village in the north of France, studied at the University of Lille, written a religious volume that was placed on the Index, a biography of the Bronte sisters that won him a small but solid transatlantic reputation...
...suggest to you that you prepare yourself for a newer and finer stewardship-the industrial rebirth of the nation. You ask when? I don't know. But the task is mighty and the penalty for failure severe, so let us try to be patient...
...about the publicity value of the position but they nevertheless gave him unanimous permission. Within a few months he found himself in command. Last year he moved to the chairmanship, the presidency going to Publisher William B. Warner of McCall Corp., a high-voltage supersalesman who once attempted the task of dry-cleaning American Woolen...