Word: maximum
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...commander was quoting from the most significant fighter lesson learned in World War II. Both the R.A.F. and the U.S. Army Air Forces until lately were inclined to judge fighters mainly on performance at maximum altitudes, to wash them out from front-line duty if they fell short by this standard. Now U.S. and British airmen see, as the Germans saw before them, that the idea of the all-purpose, all-altitude fighter is a wasteful fallacy. Result: aircraft already built and flying are assigned duties fitting their capabilities; new designs are shaped to specific predetermined functions, at high, medium...
...plan developed because the ordinary scholarship of a maximum of $500 is not enough for the needs of many boys who are in every way qualified but who are not in a position to pay the rest of the year's expenses. Honorary awards, carrying no stipends, are also made under the plan to deserving students, and the aid given to each man is in proportion to his income...
Facts. They could say they had launched the biggest pitched battle ever fought. Acting on the fundamental Clausewitz dictum, "Concentrate the maximum of forces in the direction of the main blow," the Germans had drawn forces from both southern and northern fronts. They had thrown into this great push toward Moscow more than two-thirds of their entire infantry forces in Russia, three-quarters of their Panzer forces. Altogether the Germans were using some 1,700,000 infantrymen, 450,000 motorized troops, 14,000 tanks...
...first two-level ceiling of this type was established last fortnight over acetic acid. For acetic acid (familiar to housewives as the basic ingredient of vinegar) made by the inexpensive synthetic method, the maximum is 6.25? a lb. But for natural acid the maximum...
Under Henderson's order a maximum of 304,848 passenger automobiles can be produced next January, as compared with output of 415,350 this January...