Sentences with phrase «ii war effort»

It was a storage facility for the World War II war effort.

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One Belt, One Road represents China's biggest overseas spending effort ever, a project that, adjusted for inflation, is at least 12 times the size of the Marshall Plan, the history - changing U.S. program that helped rebuild Western Europe from rubble after World War II.

In what's described as the biggest refugee crisis since the end of World War II, Maurer called on European and Gulf countries to step up their efforts to support the region.

said the meeting had historic significance because «for the first time since the multilateral trading rounds began after World War II, a trade expansion effort has ended in failure.»

Certainly since World War II there has been an accelerating national effort to provide post — high school educational opportunity to everyone who shows even the least promise of profiting by it.

Hindsight notes that the pact should have been linked with the minimal structure of world government which the League of Nations provided, and that it would have been more impressive had it been combined with measures for disarmament and with efforts to remedy the historic injustices which led to World War II.

When explaining what motivated his design for the new Coventry Cathedral after World War II, the architect Basil Spence called his effort an «act of Faith».25 What are needed now are «acts of Faith» on behalf of the environment.

Japanese imperial rule (beginning in 1910) and the burdens of World War II disturbed these efforts, but when China «fell» to the communists in 1949, many groups, such as the Oriental Missionary Society, pivoted towards Korea.

While the SBC and several of its entities nearly folded during the depression years, the denomination experienced its greatest growth after World War II as evangelistic efforts, the postwar religious revival, and the baby boom swelled the membership rolls of most congregations.

For several decades after World War II the expectation that economic growth could work this miracle in Third World countries justified devoting all efforts to furthering such growth.

But perhaps not all trainee priests realise they go to a place where two holy Englishwomen helped hide Jews during World War II and were key players in the post-war relief effort.

The technological rationalism and optimism of much science fiction is also, in a way, more American — and America has offered the broadest field for Jewish literary efforts since World War II.

Moreover, Oregon has a long - standing tradition of anti-Catholicism, harking back to strong Ku Klux Klan activities earlier in the century, as well as pre-World War II efforts to prevent religious (especially Catholic) schools from operating, a movement that failed only on appeal to the Supreme Court.

Hopefully, this contentious issue will be clarified by the joint efforts of Catholic and Jewish scholars who already began last December to review published Vatican archival material about World War II» an initiative that was first proposed by Cardinal Cassidy.

was written by Churchill and sent to his publisher not long before Britain joined the war efforts of World War war efforts of World War War II.

An intensive seven - month investigation by Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele reveals some of the negative aspects of past efforts.12 More than $ 172 billion has been spent since World War II in overseas assistance.

As allied troops fought in World War II, Hollywood supported the effort by creating a War Activities Committee.

During the Holocaust, as Nichols notes, religious efforts to help refugees became a «political orphan» of World War II.

During the World War II era, hexane processing to extract oil from soybeans became commonplace to produce fuel for the war effoWar II era, hexane processing to extract oil from soybeans became commonplace to produce fuel for the war effowar effort.

Since World War II, Newark, New York - based Maco PKG has maintained a healthy business relationship with the military by creating packages that meet military specifications (Mil - Spec) and support the war effoWar II, Newark, New York - based Maco PKG has maintained a healthy business relationship with the military by creating packages that meet military specifications (Mil - Spec) and support the war effowar effort.

Not since the post-World War II boom of the late 1940s through the 1960s have residents of the Arlington Heights Park District experienced such a profound effort by the District to provide parks and recreation options designed by the people and for the people.

Not too long before women were coaxed into getting jobs to assist in the World War II effort.

A World War II veteran, who is 90 years old, made an effort to be at the public hearing because this issue is so important to him.

The net result would be a federal R&D portfolio in the 21st century that would look significantly different from today: defense R&D would be less than half the total portfolio for the first time since before World War II, while the NIH's R&D effort would be almost as large as those of all other nondefense R&D funding agencies combined.

As part of the Manhattan Project effort to build an atomic bomb during World War II, Szilard worked together with physicist Enrico Fermi and other colleagues at the University of Chicago to create the world's first experimental nuclear reactor.

In pursuit of scientific questions big and small, the United States invested in basic research in the wake of World War II, an effort that was «foundational to the American way of life,» Gates said.

The Manhattan Project refers to the effort to develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II by the United States with assistance from the United Kingdom and Canada.

For a time, Alan Turing himself participated in these efforts, in the wake of his seminal work in mathematical logic, and in code - breaking during World War II.

Hudd devoted a great deal of effort to bringing theatrical entertainment to the factory workers and more remote villages of England during World War II, though he still managed to play roles in Major Barbara and I Know Where I'm Going, among a handful of major movies.

Also noticeably absent were Angelina Jolie for her efforts on the World War II drama «Unbroken,» Christopher Nolan for his space odyssey «Interstellar,» and Bennett Miller for the true crime story «Foxcatcher.»

As World War II breaks out, academic Alan Turing is interviewed for a secretive position in Britain's war effoWar II breaks out, academic Alan Turing is interviewed for a secretive position in Britain's war effowar effort.

Niki Caro's The Zookeeper's Wife recounts the efforts of Antonina Żabiński and her husband, Jan, who risked their lives during World War II to harbor Jewish refugees in the basement of their zoo during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening January 2, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Defiance (R for violence and profanity) Oscar - winner Edward Zwick (for Shakespeare in Love) directs this harrowing tale of survival, set in occupied Poland during World War II, recounting the heroic efforts of three brothers (Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell) who escape into the forest where they join forces with Russian resistance fighters to save over 1,000 fellow Jews from the Nazis.

I've already seen Paul Thomas Anderson's confounding and often hypnotic tale of a battle - scarred World War II veteran (Joaquin Phoenix) and his postwar indoctrination into a Scientology - like religion formed by the title character, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman.Ö Some of it is startlingly beautiful cinema, photographed in 70 mm; most of the effective human drama is confined to the first half, but it's well worth the time and effort.

Of course, true film lovers believe an epic World War II era drama deserves to be seen on the big screen, and since Mudbound will be shown in select cinemas, I suggest you make the effort to see it there if you can.

Set in the deep south during World War II, the quiet, intimate romance plumbs the hideous effects of racial prejudice and honors heroic efforts — all made by women — to make things right.

WHAT: After Japan's surrender brings an end to World War II, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) arrives in the country to spearhead the recovery effort, placing General Bonner Fellers (Matthew Fox) in charge of an investigative task force to decide whether Japan's beloved emperor is guilty of any war crimWar II, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) arrives in the country to spearhead the recovery effort, placing General Bonner Fellers (Matthew Fox) in charge of an investigative task force to decide whether Japan's beloved emperor is guilty of any war crimwar crimes.

The paradox of modern schooling after World War II, he found, was that just as our complex industrial society made formal education more important, adolescent culture was shifting teens» attention away from education, prompting adolescents to squeeze out «maximum rewards for minimal effort.»

At the end of World War II, UNESCO was founded in order to promote ways to establish the lasting foundations of world peace, and its efforts to promote universal education were understood to be about planting the seeds of peace on the minds of children.

As these less - demanding, nonintellectual courses proliferated, a new «movement» was born, the Life Adjustment Movement, a federally sponsored curriculum reform effort that began soon after World War II.

Inspired by the scrapping efforts of students during World War II, Get in the Scrap!

The political effort necessary to address these critical governance issues would rival anything Texas has attempted in public policy at least since World War II, but we need to begin.

Since World War II, efforts to improve schools have numbered in the thousands.

Here are major milestones in the life and times of this popular VW: 1934: Hitler orders development of «people's car»: the Volkswagen.1938: Ferdinand Porsche sets the Beetle's final form.1939: Construction of factory begins in Wolfsburg, 100 miles west of Berlin.1941: First Beetle production vehicles come off the line.1941 - 44: Only 1,000 Beetles are produced during World War II because most resources are devoted to war effoWar II because most resources are devoted to war effowar effort.

During World War II, Auto Union produced armored cars and light transports for the German war effoWar II, Auto Union produced armored cars and light transports for the German war effowar effort.

Powerful illustrations illuminate a little - known aspect of World War II resistance: the heroic Muslim effort to orchestrate the escape of Jews who were aggressively pursued by Nazis during the four - year occupation of Paris.

That was why Father Leonard, my history teacher, was spending one last class period droning on about World War II and the heroic efforts of General Henry M. Lowery to alert America to the dangers of Adolf Hitler and Nazism.

World War II saw the island's importance grow as it became a major supplier of tin and rubber to the war effoWar II saw the island's importance grow as it became a major supplier of tin and rubber to the war effowar effort.

In Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan has produced a closely researched exploration of life in New York City during World War II and describes a range of ways in which New York women became involved in the war effoWar II and describes a range of ways in which New York women became involved in the war effowar effort.

And that after his death, with the end of World War II and the dawn of the 1950s, Wonder Woman lost her superpowers and, like so many women who had worked in the war effort, was returned to domestic liWar II and the dawn of the 1950s, Wonder Woman lost her superpowers and, like so many women who had worked in the war effort, was returned to domestic liwar effort, was returned to domestic life.