Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bare chance of peace remained-of a kind of peace very close to war but not quite war. This bare chance was that the Japanese would remain immobile on all fronts but the Chinese. Very few men who were in a position to know thought much of this chance...
...temper of the Tribune's reporting the war & peace issue shows in its streamer page 1 headlines: WAR BLAMED ON U.S. ENVOYS WARN SENATE WARMONGERS WAR AGITATORS HIT BY HOLT HALT WAR DRIVE- WHEELER BARE MORE STEPS TO WAR HALIFAX STEERS F.D.R. BILL HOUSE PASSES DICTATOR BILL DRAFT ARMY 'GOING TO WAR' NEW WAR DEAL WITH CANADA BEAT DRUMS FOR CONVOYS DISCLOSE MORE TALK OF A.E.F. PACT PUSHES U.S. NEAR WAR GEN. JOHNSON: WAR IN 60 DAYS* VOTE NO WAR IN WISCONSIN LET PEOPLE DECIDE ON WAR FIGHT JAPS! BRITONS...
...months ago received a British order for 12,000 such guns. Tiny High Standard had World War I-seasoned talent,* but neither facilities nor tools. On a suburban weed patch in Hamden it built a seven-acre, modern steel & glass factory in four months. Into a market already picked bare, it dispatched its experts to find machine tools...
From 1889 to 1894 the games were held in Springfield, because Boston and New Haven complained about the damage wreaked on them in former years, and these two towns were annually depopulated for one weekend late in November. The seating situation was stringent, for Hampden Park held a bare 9,000 paying customers and the Springfield City Council kept more than 2,000 for the inhabitants of their own city...
...pictures at top and bottom of this page illustrate why the U.S. can't expand copper production fast enough to meet its needs-four years elapsed between them. It took that long for Phelps Dodge to behead a mountain and lay bare the mile-long, 400-ft. thick clay ore body (below) for exploitation. This week Phelps Dodge is putting finishing touches on this new $35,000,000 Morenci mine in Arizona; next month it will start to smelt 6,500 tons of copper a month...