Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With or without Stalingrad and the Volga, the Red Army would fight on. The question was how it would fight, how effectively to preserve the rest of Russia, how potently as an ally of the United Nations. There were no pat answers. Hitler had not achieved his maximum objective: destruction of the Red Army. But his minimum objective constituted a great victory for Germany, a great threat to the Allied cause...
...general confusion over the draft, the U.S. public has yet no definite idea of the ultimate manpower strength of the U.S. Army, but this week it got a stunning look at the maximum present possibility...
Each House squad is usually limited to 30 players, the maximum manageable number, and each House has its own jersey and coach. For at least the first three weeks there will be practice sessions with Samborski leading calisthenics, and then the group will divide up into individual squads to work on fundamentals and plays...
...Army got around to making public last week something that its Aviation Cadets had known for months: its maximum dimensions for fighter pilots are 5 ft. 9 in. in bare feet, 170 Ib. on the scale. The Air Forces prefer candidates for fighter training who are a little smaller to start with. Fighter cockpits are built for nothing bigger...
Only one definite fact could be ascertained: that for all men over 20 the ERC would be ineffective as a deferment program after the new year. Details of military training were not made clear and no statement was forthcoming as to whether this ERC age maximum would be decreased to correspond with a lowered draft...