Word: tasked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During 1936, revealed Pravda, the Gorky plant set itself the task of turning out 12,000 cars. The actual output was 2,500. In one day 24 of 47 cars turned out were tagged "unserviceable." In view of such conditions Soviet automobile authorities were agitating last week for the recall of the hundreds of foreign engineers who launched industrialism in the Soviet State but were dismissed "at the successful end of the first Five-Year Plan...
...United States of America, within itself, must continue the task of making democracy succeed...
...that task the legislative branch of our Government will, I am confident, continue to meet the demands of democracy...
...executive branch of the Government must move forward in this task...
...task of making provision for these compelling needs is a hard one. Still, its appeal must be universal, and cooperation, if sought, may perhaps be obtained in this problem. As far as long term athletic financing is concerned, endowment is the logical and satisfactory answer for the future, combined, of course, with a continuation of a policy of keeping costs down as much as is humanly possible. The training of the mind is liberally provided for, but is comparatively futile without a corresponding care for that of the body. In due course farsighted graduates may fill this vital need...