Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Double rooms will range from $120 to a maximum of about $330, while triples will cost between $120 and about...
...During the week he wrote the 48 State Governors asking them to conserve rubber by limiting maximum road speeds of all motor vehicles to 40 miles per hour, and to require frequent checking of tires for possible repair and retreading. Reason: the nation's tires on its 30,000,000 vehicles must last as long as possible...
...Moffat, formerly of U. S. Industrial Alcohol, and now chief of WPB's Alcohol Unit, are trying to monopolize the production of alcohol for explosives. But their plants cannot be adapted for distilling from grains. They use blackstrap sugar, and invert molasses as their raw products. And these maximum sugar demands have caused 1,300,000,000 tons of Cuban sugar to be diverted to their use. This sizable part of the sugar board is unnecessary, because the distillers of liquors could do the job without...
...could not wait, it could risk its naval strength in sustained attacks on Japan's long sea lines from Yokohama to the Indies. The U.S. could choose its Pacific theater and commit the maximum of strength of planes, tanks and men to the chosen front. The U.S. might even have to choose between action against Germany in Europe and action against Japan in the Pacific, gambling that defeat of one would lead to defeat of the other...
...specialties plant had not this foundry begun casting 60-mm. U.S. and 3-in. British mortar shells, a practice unthinkable in World War I. Mortar shells must be of precise dimensions and exacting metallic analysis so they will burst into fragments not too large & not too small to insure maximum bloodshed. Hence they had always been forged, and many an ordnance officer swore they couldn't be cast: cast steel is full of pores and bubbles, it shrinks in its molds to nonuniform sizes, its metallic structure is unreliable...