Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans at home, bombarded by official pessimism in order to screw them up to maximum effort, the most fearful fact of all was that their propaganda was true. The Axis armies in Russia were indeed shortening their lines-shortening them so far that nearly all the gains of 1942 were already lost, shortening them to the point where further retreats might invite disaster...
...Inch and other lines like it. Big Inch, when finished, will be an engineering and construction monument. It will tunnel 1,400 miles under eight states and 20 rivers and surmount the rolling Alleghenies. Now building in the South is an extension of Big Inch's smaller (maximum 11 inch) brother, the Plantation Line, which by June will stretch from Baton Rouge to Richmond. Oilmen figure that still another such line would be needed if both war and civilian needs are to be fulfilled...
...first to operate continuously. Instead of passing oil vapors through a catalytic bed or chamber, as in older devices, the process uses a powdered catalyst so fine that it acts like a liquid, is carried along by the very vapors it cracks. As a powder, the catalyst exposes the maximum surface to the reaction...
...Together Saffarrans and Lear worked out a curriculum that broke with tradition. Its text was the first-hand experience of men who had met the Japs. And the curriculum was crammed with such subjects as how to finish a tough, bayoneting, backbreaking, eye-gouging fight; how to make the maximum use of natural cover in the battlefield; how to advance using cover in the face of gunfire. In Ben Lear's school the gunfire is real. The soldier who forgets his lesson can well be hurt or killed...
Dark, affable, sharp-as-a-broken-bottle Charles E. Bedaux was nabbed in North Africa. Charged with trading with the enemy, he faced a maximum penalty of ten years' imprisonment and a $10,000 fine. Unofficially it was said he had tried to buy up the North African orange crop for the Nazis. Bedaux's record would indicate that his zest for chasing dollars had involved him more deeply...