Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months of war . . . Marshal Goring is taking over the direct management of war economy through the Economic General Staff. . . . The Ministries, with their respective Cabinet Ministers, are being reduced to purely routine administrative functions. ... A more substantial war loan is expected to be floated soon, presumably next month. . . . The attempt at the start of the war to introduce a deflationary policy by lowering wages and prices and extending working hours met such resistance in practice that it had to be largely abandoned. . . . The eight-hour day had to be restored. . . . Furthermore, while the slogan at the beginning...
...week caused Lieut. Colonel Karl Schumacher, in command of the wing assigned to protect Germany's northwest sea approaches, to appear in the theatre hall of the Propaganda Ministry at Berlin. To assembled correspondents, Colonel Schumacher-43, heavy and bald-declared that he was surprised the British would attempt raiding on a clear day. He saluted British gallantry and skill, but explained that his men's only problem had been to break up the bomber formations by diving on them, then shooting rear machine-gunners before proceeding to cut down the Vickers Wellingtons one after another...
Unlike the older, mightier British and Scandinavian cooperative associations, which own factories, dairies, utilities, ships, banks, U. S. co-ops for a long time limited themselves to the jobs of wholesaling and retailing. Through them consumers took aprons away from shopkeepers, but did not attempt to own and run their own steel mills...