Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...round-the-clock raids, instead of more massive but sporadic attacks, had been best set forth by Major General Ira C. Eaker, commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Britain. His reasons: 1) to inflict maximum damage; 2) to keep enemy defenses on a 24-hour alert; 3) to force maintenance of both day & night fighters in Western Europe...
...Catholic and Jewish pupils whose parents object. Miles normally has a staff of some 15 men and 12 women teachers, all of whom must have honors degrees from a major university. Teachers' salaries conform to a national scale: for men, ?234 ($945) at start, ?480 ($1,939) maximum...
...full strength of the German armies which had laid down their weapons on the Armistice Day of World War I. Of the Reich's total population, 13% were estimated to be under arms, dead, or permanently disabled-3% more than the "normal mobilization" which is the generally considered maximum that any nation can spare, if its battlefronts are to be properly supplied by home-front production. On this basis, the U.S. could maintain 13,000,000 men under arms...
...Bissell is by report an able soldier who respects the rulebooks and goes by them. Chennault is an able soldier who has no use for "the book." Result is constant friction. It is increased by the fact that his supply of planes (of which he hopes to have a maximum 500) comes through Bissell's India command...
...Army seemed to have a chance to threaten this "last line." This week, after they completed the repossession of Voronezh and swept westward, the Russians were actually attacking the outer bastions of that line near Kursk and Belgorod. To the south, beyond Kharkov, the Germans' maximum hope was to hold a bulge protecting that key city and the northern approaches to Rostov. Of these objectives, the greatest gain for the Russians and the greatest loss to the Germans would be Kharkov, fulcrum of the entire Axis line lying between the Red armies in the south and the outer defenses...