Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conceded that the U.S. had suffered a serious defeat in the Pacific. He called on the people to prepare for a long war which "we are going to win." He outlined a program for "doubled and quadrupled" war production by increasing the working week to the maximum of seven 24-hour days; by building new plants, increasing those already built and converting unused factories; by giving more of all available materials to the military, less to civilians...
...essential that our procurement be put into the highest gear at once . . . employes must make their maximum effort regardless of the long hours of hardship endured . . . production must be put on a 24-hour-a-day basis.-Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson...
Commodity brokers had a better time; commodities have less to fear from taxes, more to gain from inflation. All grain futures rose the maximum daily limit; world sugar picked up ten points, cocoa gained 30. After the close traders heard that the Commodity Exchange Administration would freeze wheat, soybean, butter, egg and flaxseed futures at the Monday level...
...named the Board of Economic Warfare, got ready for action just in time. With a new personnel of 750, last week it began waging silent warfare throughout the world. Its jobs: 1) to keep supplies, whether the democracies need them or not, away from the Axis; 2) to assure maximum supplies to the shortage-ridden U.S., her allies and her southern neighbors, distributing them where they will do the most good...
...shown they could stand two or three times as much wear as European machines. The engines gave at least 200 hours of hard running between layups for repairs. The rubber treads, characteristic of U.S. tanks, lasted between 2,000 and 2,500 miles in desert tests, against a maximum of 800 for the best track Europe produces. Some reporters wrote that the British thought all-metal treads were better than rubber. The Ordnance Department was ready to bet that the British would soon change their minds...