Sentences with phrase «us war efforts»

It all started in March, 1942, when Harry S. Truman, Chairman of the Senate War Investigation Committee, implied that the relationship between Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) and Germany's I.G. Farben hindered the war effort.

While the cabinet members felt at the time that they were seriously involved in the war effort, the unnamed former minister, in retrospect, said he realized how little power and influence they actually wielded.

One of the aircraft under consideration, the A-29 Super Tucano, is already in service with the Afghan air force, and the US has ordered six more of them to send to the country as the military adjusts to President Donald Trump's plans to expand the US - led war effort there.

He might begin with the U.S. - allied war efforts against ISIS, which has had its difficulties since Obama first authorized stepped up airstrikes and some ground action in mid-204.

For the US, bombing would focus on daytime raids against strategically valuable targets — factories, ports, military bases, and other infrastructure involved in the war effort.

Donovan called Walter C. Langer, a psychoanalyst helping with the war effort, in for a meeting, and asked: «What do you make of Hitler?

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Pentagon has ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with key information about US war efforts in Afghanistan, accelerating a clampdown on data, such as the size of the Afghan military and police forces, that indicate how the 16 - year - old stalemated war is going.

Moreover, they insisted, the failure to extend the vote to women might hinder their participation in the war effort — which was direly needed.

The war effort has sometimes faded from US public attention, even though the US has invested about $ 120 billion in reconstructing Afghanistan since 2002.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- In an abrupt reversal, the US military on Tuesday said it made a mistake when it ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with information about US war efforts in Afghanistan that help to measure how the 16 - year - old stalemated war is going.

«Walmart Canada is proud to honour all Canadians who contributed to the war effort.»

Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase estimated that the war effort would cost $ 380 million, of which he proposed to levy $ 80 million in taxes and to borrow the remaining $ 300 million.

By the end of 1942, POWs were being used as forced labour as the Japanese war effort intensified.

Episcopal Bishop Browning indicated that he was certain that the 80 percent polling support for the war effort in the U.S. amounted only to sentiment for the troops and not support for the policy.

Billions are going into this war effort but we are broke at home...

He is active in his community and in the war effort.

Strong editorial resistance to the war effort continued right down to the implementation of Nixon's «peace with honor» which the magazine, under new editor James M. Wall, damned as the «final self - deception» (February 7, 1973).

In reality, Jan knew that serving the Nazi war effort would create an opportunity to smuggle Jews and other Polish citizens facing persecution and death out of Warsaw, into the countryside where sympathetic families would hide them until the war ended.

G, I served over 27 years, nearly 5 years deployed to the Persian Gulf region for the war effort.

The United States terrorized civilians as part of its war effort in Vietnam.

Its periodicals promoted the war effort and most of its sons volunteered.

All are part of the same unified war effort.

But for many more he was a traitor who disobeyed authority and undermined the German war effort.

• The United States as part of its diplomatic war effort also worked to narrow Nicaragua's options in terms of aid, trade, and military assistance.

That is to say, they know that those supporting the war effort will demand an answer to the question: In light of the possibility of further terrorist acts, what would you have us do?

I was working on the Air force Satellite communications for many years and had security clearance (Secret) and over two years serving military war effort in Iraq.

Not only are there very few voices in the mainstream media expressing doubts about the wisdom of the current military operation, but a number of commentators have waxed apoplectic over any possibility that there may be those in the land who oppose the war effort.

Early in the century «day nurseries» were provided for immigrant children, and day - care centers sprang up during both world wars to accommodate the children of women working to support the war efforts.

b) Whilst there was a lot of opposition to WW2, the only time it made its way into the major newspapers and newscasts of the time, was upon the arrest, or conviction of somebody opposed to the war effort;

No other power could so effectively have dispelled the austere, hollow - cheeked stoicism, the tolerance of bad food in inadequate amounts, the thin sour beer, watered to help the war effort, the national motto of «mustn't grumble.»

At a minimum, Shriver calls us to such reflection before either joining or resisting the contemporary war effort.

While its leaders made the war effort, ancient Jerusalem staggered toward death, invaded by the empire, occupied by armies and eventually leveled, spent in self - deception and self - destruction.

Bourne supported the war effort, in part, because he wanted English Catholics to be seen as loyal and faithful subjects of the Crown.

Howard Williams helpfully reminds us we would be remiss if we overlooked the Afghans» crucial contribution to their own war effort.

He may underestimate the crucial role played by American air power and special forces that turned the tide of the Northern Alliance's losing war effort in 2001, but he is nonetheless correct that the war is ultimately the Afghans» to win or lose.

Hubert Stuart Moore aided the war effort as a civilian, serving on hospital boards; he invented a splint and, according to one account, artificial limbs as well.

Then I quoted from Reinhold Niebuhr's letter to a pacifist who was reluctant to favor the Allied war effort against Hitler:

The Allied war effort seemed to him to be obscene, life imitating Guernica, chaos come again.

His message was mostly ignored; the Allies thought he was too pro-German, «Papa Boche», and British Catholic leaders continued to support the war effort and emphasise that the pope's stance was not doctrinal but political.

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

Now, in «real time» news, journalists encourage us to be embedded with the war effort.

We will see if Hollywood continues to support the war effort or start to produce anti-war films that are less blatant.

Very soon Israel suffers a terrible defeat in battle and Joshua conducts an investigation to find out who or what undermined the war effort.

In those days there were barrels on the street corners so we could contribute peach pits to the war effort.

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

However, Isle Petit Anses salt deposits became a primary focal point of war efforts in the tug - of - war between the North and the South where salt was a vital commodity for civilian and military uses.

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 effort.

Along with Tennessee coach Robert Neyland, Wade was assigned to coach an Army all - star team against NFL teams to raise money for the war effort.

Just as he had been prevented from playing in the Rose Bowl, Yoshihara was kept from the rush to join the war effort, despite his repeated efforts to enlist.

After Congressman Victor L. Berger, a member of the National Socialist Party who was convicted of «impeding the war effort,» was sentenced by Landis to the maximum penalty, the Judge remarked, «It was my great disappointment to give Berger only 20 years in Leavenworth.