Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...initial contribution of any nation would be only 20% of its maximum obligation, and not more than one fifth of that need be in gold...
...most of its detail the film has remarkable power. Its power results from a simple fact: the greatest shots from Russia's great war records, out of which The Battle of Russia is made, are never used merely to tell a story, never for propaganda, always for the maximum of human and emotional force. Literal sound and suggestive music are used in the same...
With plants and materials at hand, and product stabilized for the time being, the aircraft industry is close to its maximum possible output: about 9,000 planes a month from a line operating so smoothly that production emphasis can be shifted to any kind of plane the Army & Navy want...
Winter Promise. The new tactics had limitations. The maximum reach of fighter-escorted raids from Britain was probably no more than 400 miles, taking in the Ruhr industrial area but not much more. Even with the creation of the Fifteenth...
...kind of $5.50 question. On its road tryout Gypsy Rose Lee's maiden effort at playwriting, THE NAKED GENIUS, had become the script-tease of the season. Two days after it went into rehearsal, it was sold to 20th Century-Fox on a sliding-scale basis for a maximum $365,000. In Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, it packed them in-but kept stalling off its Broadway opening. Then Producer Michael Todd (Star & Garter, Something for the Boys) boldly announced he would open the show there over the violent protests of Gypsy and Director George S. Kaufman, who wanted it buried...