Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German armies, in their preparatory spring attacks, have already shown a few new tricks. Essence of these new tactics is to choose a very narrow sector, smash the selected area with a maximum concentration of planes (the Russians counted 1,000 on a 15-mile line below Kharkov), then strike with closely integrated formations of artillery, infantry and tanks. Full-strength Panzers have not attempted to dart through the enemy lines, swirl at will in the Russian rear. Instead, the Germans apparently keep their tanks in smaller groups, close to artillery and infantry. Thus, while the German pace...
According to one estimate, the Jap has hardly more than 300 planes in China-although, of course, he is putting them to maximum use. U.S. bombers-and more fighters for Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers-should make a difference...
...subordinating everything-including strikes-to Maximum-Aid-To-Russia, the Communists had lost many members in Britain's mining communities, where the fight for better working conditions continued urgent. But the Communists' cause had been taken up, for practical reasons, by a large part of the British public and press, and the Party was riding the wave...
...Where a certain minimum of civilian needs must be met," it read, "it may become advisable to concentrate [civilian production] ... in one or two plants and require all other manufacturing units in that industry to pool and exchange their machinery for ... maximum war production...
...Canada's problem was to get maximum use of her $1,000,000,000, 103-field air-training plant, which Franklin Roosevelt called the "airdrome of democracy." The R.C.A.F. had dug thousands deep into Canada's manpower reservoir, was reaching the point where the annual crop of air-crew prospects might soon fall below training facilities. R.C.A.F. recruits from the U.S., now being repatriated, had represented from 10% to 20% of R.C.A.F. trainees...