President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted a postwar assistance program to help transition from wartime but he wanted it need based for poor people, not just veterans.

Together with the medical researcher Anders Grönwall, he discovered that dextran could be used as a replacement for blood plasma in blood transfusions, for which there could be a large need in wartime.

Louis attempted to deliver a military solution, mobilising an army along the border, but the French position rapidly become strained by the need to maintain a wartime footing.

Meanwhile, the French position had become strained by the need to maintain a wartime footing.

Marshals are typically appointed only in wartime ( although this need not be the case ).

He was appointed a commission on 29 September as a second lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps after only nine months of training ( due to wartime need ; the normal course of study was eighteen months to two years ), left Sandhurst on 1 October, and was sent to France on 4 November 1914 to serve with the 4th Company 7th Divisional Train British Expeditionary Force.

The dam's primary goal, irrigation, was postponed as the wartime need for electricity increased.

Doctrines concerning the protection of civilians in wartime, or the need for " proportionality " when force is used, are addressed to issues of conduct within a war, but the same doctrines can also shed light on the question of when it is lawful ( or unlawful ) to go to war in the first place.

During the Second World War, Kit Kat was depicted as a valuable wartime foodstuff, with the slogan " what active people need ".

The essential wartime shipyards in North Vancouver, underscored the need for reliable industrial access.

In 1940, the RAeS responded to the wartime need to expand the aircraft industry.

He was proud of the subsequent accomplishments of members of his wartime staff, and traveled to New York each year to celebrate MacArthur's birthday with MacArthur and other former senior commanders of the Southwest Pacific Area. He lectured at Army Schools and civic organizations, offering opinions on subjects such as the value of training, the benefit of universal military, and the need for a unified defense establishment.

The school also has a wartime reserve role, although it has publicly been stated that the school will not be used operationally unless a very urgent need arises.

Although the heavy wartime traffic had left the railroad's plant and equipment in need of repair, the damage was partly offset by new equipment that had been purchased by the government.

It remained popular until the Second World War, when a combination of the need for increased wartime food production ( which resulted in many horses being sent to the slaughterhouse ), and increased farm mechanisation which followed the war decimated population numbers.

He allowed that wartime circumstances might justify a different understanding, but that Nebraska had not demonstrated sufficient need " in time of peace and domestic tranquility " to justify " the consequent infringement of rights long freely enjoyed.

In 1950 the Air Ministry offered to provide the wartime air base to NATO as part of the Cold War development of the alliance, and the need for additional air bases in the face of the Warsaw Pact threat to Western Europe.

He also asked her to take on the challenge of educating about the need to ban ALL space-based weapons by educating decision makers and the grassroots about how the military industrial complex can feasibly be transformed into a peaceful world cooperative space exploration complex ... creating a global cooperative space program that will be large enough to replace the entire war game and mindset ... and build a security system based on collaboration and information sharing, a stimulated economy that will provide more jobs and profits ( and training programs ) than during any hot or cold wartime, applied technologies and information that can provide solutions to urgent and potential man-made or natural disasters and solve problems of human needs, our common environment, and new energy.

At the end of World War II, the United Kingdom had a need for quality housing, with a rapidly increasing " baby boomer " population increasingly becoming unhappy with the prewar and wartime " austerity " of their lives, and indeed, their living space.

The need for strict discipline in wartime created other problems that were not easily solved.

At this time, USC was the leading architectural school in California, and a hotbed of new ideas brought about by the aftermath of the war: ideas about how architecture should respond to social issues, such as the population boom in Los Angeles and the need for low-cost housing, and ideas about how to apply the new materials and industrialized techniques of the wartime economy, such as mass-production and pre-fabrication, to peacetime.

It had its effect on her in the middle of wartime when, nervous that at some future point she might be in need of funds and need a fallback, she wrote Sleeping Murder and locked it securely in a bank vault for future publication.

With the end of the conflict there was no longer a need for a large air force of wartime proportions, and as a result Wroughton received demobilised Avro Lancaster bombers, most of which ended up as scrap metal.

The movement toward European unity has been expressed in two currents: federalism and functionalism, one looking to the constitution of a United States of Europe, the other building on wartime precedents of practical cooperation for the solution of specific problems.

Walton, after a wartime stint with Time-Life, to become bureau chief for The New Republic.

The man most firmly at grips with the problem is the University of Minnesota's Physiologist Ancel Keys, 57, inventor of the wartime K ( for Keys ) ration and author of last year's bestselling Eat Well And Stay Well.

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

The demand for iron products, such as armor for gunboats, cannon, and shells, as well as a hundred other industrial products, made Pittsburgh a center of wartime production.

* Service: ammunition used in live fire training or for wartime use in a combat zone.

This rank is generally reserved for wartime and ceremonial purposes ; there are no regular appointments to the rank.

Elwes had been closely identified with English wartime morale, having given six benefit performances of The Dream of Gerontius on consecutive nights in 1916, and many concerts in France in 1917 for British soldiers.

In 1940 they joined Churchill's wartime coalition government, with Sinclair serving as Secretary of State for Air, the last British Liberal to hold Cabinet rank office for seventy years.

Although there is no strong evidence for any single theory, many independent theories exist, some blaming storms, some capsizing, and some suggesting that wartime enemy activity was to blame for the loss.

Having lost 27 million people in the war, the Soviet Union was determined to destroy Germany's capacity for another war, and pushed for such in wartime conferences.

Capital punishment has in the past been practised by most societies ( one notable exception being Kievan Rus ); currently 58 nations actively practice it, and 97 countries have abolished it ( the remainder have not used it for 10 years or allow it only in exceptional circumstances such as wartime ).

A coalition government might also be created in a time of national difficulty or crisis, for example during wartime, or economic crisis, to give a government the high degree of perceived political legitimacy, or collective identity it desires whilst also playing a role in diminishing internal political strife.

Many pistols which had attachments for the stocks, including rare wartime models, were altered to remove the attachment point.

Before the buildup to the war gay servicemembers were court-martialed, imprisoned, and dishonorably discharged, but in wartime commanding officers found it difficult to convene court-martial boards of commissioned officers and the administrative blue discharge became the military's standard method for handling gay and lesbian personnel.

" During the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, the commander of the torpedo boat destroyer IJN Akatsuki described " being in command of a destroyer for a long period, especially in wartime ... is not very good for the health.

Awards may be made to persons other than members of the Armed Forces of the United States for wartime services only, and then only under exceptional circumstances, with the express approval of the President in each case.

Awards may be made to persons other than members of the Armed Forces of the United States for wartime services only, and only then under exceptional circumstances with the express approval of the President in each case.

The experience of wartime self-government was crucial in paving the way for formal autonomy in 1948.

The desire for wartime propaganda created a renaissance in the film industry in Britain, with realistic war dramas like 49th Parallel ( 1941 ), Went the Day Well?