Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew were not sufficient to defeat the Army against them. The extreme hope in the Balkans was that Italy might be knocked out. The minimum hope was that a heavy cost might be inflicted on the Germans. By last week it was certain that the minimum rather than the maximum hope would be realized. The Germans had already counterattacked across Libya and developed a threat to the Suez Canal (see p. 23). They accomplished this, in spite of the British Fleet, by flying some troops to Tripoli. The British suspected that the French had helped the Germans supply their Libyan...
...Since the first week of March the average rate of loss had been over 100,000 tons a week. At that rate, Britain stood to lose over 5,000,000 tons in 1941. If Britain and the U.S. succeed in building 2,100,000 tons this year-probably the maximum, this would mean a net loss of nearly 3,000,000 tons -or about 23% of the 13,000,000-ton fleet now supplying Britain. It would reduce the effective tonnage of ships engaged in that essential function to little more than 3,000,000 tons. At this rate...
...flying beetles then complete spreading the disease. Purpose of spore-sowing is not, as in spraying, to kill beetles on a specific plot but to establish the beetle enemy widely. Spore powder is not available to ordinary gardeners, because the Government is using all that is available to secure maximum distribution-although the Government will not make public just how much land it expects to treat this year, its plans call for the inoculation of 1,800 square miles in Maryland alone...
...placed burly Leon Henderson, most dynamic and executive of the New Deal coterie. Into Henderson's hands he placed powers which include authority to fix priorities on all civilian supplies, to withhold supplies from offending industries, to use priorities on transportation, to fix and publish maximum price schedules-and to advise the President to commandeer plants which fail to cooperate...
...parietal laws referring to Women guests, the Yardlings were reminded that any female, even one's mother, must be approved before she can enter the rooms between the permited hours of 1 to 7 o'clock. More careful supervision of the size of parties, both minimum and maximum, will also be undertaken from...