Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary, would depend not only upon the policies of the U.S., but also upon the strength which the U.S. maintained to back up these policies. Having fixed the range, the Secretary began to pepper the target with arguments to prove that unification of the armed forces was necessary for maximum strength, efficiency, economy...
Hope & Reality. Chiang and Mao put the maximum emphasis upon their area of agreement-in principle...
...bases, one at Winter Harbor on Melville Island, the other at Thule in Greenland. Each would have a staff of about 50 men, with a powerful radio station and an airfield. Each main base would serve as headquarters for four satellite stations as much as 500 miles away, the maximum practical distance for supply planes. One station is planned for Peary Land, the farthest-north land on earth. Arctops may even put stations on the floating arctic ice, many miles from land...
...Bamboo also does pretty well in a storm. Its tubular construction-reinforced with longitudinal fibers-gives maximum strength for minimum weight. The horizontal joints keep it from swaying too much. Columns made the same way, of either metal or concrete, would be strong, light and hollow...
...much to place the task of developing a maximum degree of civil courage high on the list of priorities for our teachers, our writers and our public speakers...