Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Richthofen (cousin of Germany's great World War I ace), who had the job of fitting the Luftwaffe to Mot pulk, devised his plan during the spring lull. Chief change: the number of dive-bombers on a given front has been tripled, and even quadrupled, to hurl the maximum weight from the air at Red troops, artillery and tanks...
...with the aid of the aviation industry and with the equipment already in place in the shipyards we can have the assembly line in production at six months or less and it could be in maximum production at ten months or less." Kaiser's proposal sounded fantastic, but the U.S. has learned better than to scoff at the production promises of the man who built Boulder Dam in record time, and whose latest feat has been to cut the time for a Victory ship to one-sixth of the average for World War I freighters...
Airplane engines (unlike automobile engines) are not broken in by actual use, but must furnish maximum power at the first takeoff. This means that airplane engines have to be broken in by running them on the ground at the factory for at least twelve hours without stopping...
This week these were the maximum dangers facing Russia, the U.S. and Great Britain. As yet they were only dangers. But the pace and power of the Germans in the first battles of their summer offensive, and the evident weakness of the Red Army at the places where the Nazis were strongest, made the dangers very real...
China Will Eat. It is not likely that China will collapse from economic chaos alone. The terrible food problem, which last year infected every section of society, is no longer a problem. Bumper spring wheat crops and almost certain good fall crops of rice have not only assured maximum essentials for army and civil servants' consumption centers but are likely to leave a surplus. The success of Government price control is seen in the fall of prices of rice and wheat flour since the Dragon Boat Festival (May 5), a period when prices usually rise. The food structure seems...