Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John L., his outsize hat in hand, appeared before WLB for the second time within a month. Reason: Pennsylvania anthracite operators had asked for a reopening of contract negotiations. Said the union, in a circular to its members: "The best way to cooperate ... is to continue to maintain maximum production of anthracite coal to meet the war and consumer needs of the nation...
...Polygamy, though sanctioned in Confucianism, was prohibited in 1931, made a criminal offense (five years maximum sentence...
...Home Front, maximum war effort is the fundamental purpose of the people (more than 500,000 work in war factories), but within that basic purpose the contesting parties looked hard for issues. Since campaigning began they have adopted and dropped issues so fast that voters themselves had to narrow down the main issues to four...
...maximum program that the U.S. can undertake is to help stricken nations until they can get their own crops planted and harvested. This help must include food to prevent starvation. But the emphasis will be on seed, fertilizer, machinery...
...General Keitel reportedly hurried to Verona to talk with Italy's new Foreign Minister, Raffaele Guariglia. The Chief of the Italian General Staff, General Vittorio Ambrosio, joined them, "on the germans' invitation," in "important discussions." From the German point of view these discussions had only two objects: maximum, to hold the Badoglio Government to its Axis alliance for war and/or peace; minimum, to keep Italy in the war long enough for Germany to get forces and matériel down through the Brenner to hold a de fensive line south of the Po. But German broadcasts stopped using...