Word: barest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that production of shipping and some other items is still up to schedule does not help the Ground Forces.* But any slump in the production of small arms, heavy artillery, vehicles, etc. is vitally important to them. For its barest needs the Army requires between May and December a 20% increase in railway equipment and Army boat production. Against the day when the desperate enemy may decide to use poison gas, the Army needs a two-thirds increase in the production of gas masks and poison gas. It needs a 95% increase in radar equipment production...
...contrary, if the declarer prefers to assume that hearts will break rather than spades, the hand plays itself for seven against any defense and with only the barest amount of guidance...
...from 16 to 65, women between 17 and 45 were ordered to register for compulsory labor service. Civilian consumer goods were cut down to the barest necessary minimum. Community kitchens were planned to replace domestic help. Said the SS newspaper Schwarze Korps: "The homeland is to live only in order to work...
...sales taxes (which run from 16% to 67% in England on all but the barest necessities) and lower-bracket income taxes (which hit 50% in England at the $660-a-year income level) the U.S. citizen has not even begun to fight. But the U.S. corporation, long the biggest taxpayer on earth, will have extra good tax reason next year to feel that war is hell...
...Prize. At highest estimates, Germany has a flow of oil from all available sources of 1,000,000 tons a month, with total reserves of 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 tons. The barest minimum requirement for the home front is 700,000 tons a month. The remainder, 300,000 tons or less, is not enough to wage large-scale, fast-moving, mechanized, offensive...