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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the armies of Generals Ivan Masslenikov and Andrei Yeremenko crashed through the defense belt from the northeast and southeast, fought their way into the wide boulevards of the suburbs, into the narrow, winding streets of the town. Riga fell. In Moscow, Joseph Stalin ordered the maximum victory salute: 24 salvos from 324 guns...
September was the worst month of the war for Japanese aviation. U.S. flyers destroyed more than 1,300 planes - close to the maximum monthly output credited to Jap factories by the most conservative U.S. authorities...
...home orders; the German industry will be badly wrecked by air raids; and the biggest European exporter, Holland's Philips' works in Eindhoven, must be rebuilt. France and Italy [will be out of] international competition for some time to come. Hungary's production capacity is a maximum of 50,000 sets annually. Switzerland and Sweden are both producing good-quality sets and might export to world markets...
With the expressed purpose of developing a program through which the farmers of the Commonwealth can be of maximum assistance in solving the employment problems of the State during demobilization, the Subcommittee states that an important part of the project must be "making agriculture attractive enough physically, financially, and socially so that young people of the proper sort may be encouraged to enter...
...Alcohol. Some of the most expensive restaurants had bacteria counts as high as 4,800 to a cup (test is made by swabbing out a utensil with wet sterile cotton and culturing the swab). The maximum the law allows is 100. One drug store had 86,000 bacteria to a cup-no surprise to customers who have watched lunch-counter dishwashing with horrified fascination. Some New York City beer glasses, which usually get a split-second rinse in lukewarm water, had a count of 55,000, but in a survey of an unnamed city last year the Public Health Service...