Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army, which hopes to cut G.I. military chores to a minimum, hopes to have its sport program going full blast in 30 days. If British, French, Polish, Dutch, Australian and New Zealand troops join in as expected, the program may lead to Allied championships that will dwarf the peacetime Olympic Games...
Tests were made on a group of healthy young men kept in a steam cabinet at 110° Fahrenheit for half an hour. After 18 days, their sperm counts fell well below the minimum for fertility, and they remained sterile for 67 days. Dr. Pincher, following up this study, investigated hospital and domestic bath temperatures which range from 105 to 110°. Putting two & two together, he suggested that the modern hot bath habit may be largely responsible for the declining birth rate in "civilized" countries...
...these first great steps to shift the U.S. from a two-front war to a one-front war did mean that, as war contracts are canceled, the manpower and materials freed will be shunted into civilian plants with a minimum of red tape. WPB still held up the go-ahead for the making of autos, refrigerators and washing machines...
...profits actually made by the plants in peacetime business. To make sure that the Government got its money's worth in jobs during the rental period, Biddle suggested (as Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser did six weeks ago - TIME, March 19) that the lessee guarantee to keep a minimum number of people employed, on penalty of letting the plant go back to the Government...
...involves throwing around a lot of loose (and slow) talk about what we're fighting for. In addition, there's the problem of showing how technical and complicated are the tasks faced by over-aged destroyers. All this leads to tedium, though it's certainly kept down to a minimum--nothing like "Decision" or "The Searching Wind...