Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than he had already shown, he probably aimed to smash up the First Army's manpower, supplies and communications sufficiently to immobilize it temporarily (three to six months). If, after accomplishing this limited objective, he succeeded in extricating his armor and infantry, he would have nailed down his minimum victory...
...Flying Days. Rundstedt had achieved a big initial victory. The German victory might, by skill of American generalship and G.I. fighting qualities, be turned into a defeat. But if Rundstedt were able to hold the initiative, could consolidate his gains, he might already have won his minimum objective...
...hardest hit of all parts of the University, the Law School saw its enrollment drop from a peacetime norm of 1,400 to a wartime minimum of well below 100 students. Now, however, the attendance has climbed again to a current figure of 160, 90 of whom are first-year students. This increase is due largely to the growing influx of discharged servicemen, who are returning to the University in increasing numbers...
...heavy-duty tires. This was made plain last week as 1) the Army, which unexpectedly hiked its tire needs from 16.4 million to 26.8 million a year, found that it will get far fewer; 2) the quota for civilian truckers was cut almost 50% under ODT's "bare minimum" for the first quarter...
...There are at least 4,000,000 of him. U.S. soldiers have killed a "minimum of 277,000" (according to OWI). U.S. dead in the Pacific war total 21,000-a ratio of 1-to-13. Since 1937 Jap losses in dead are estimated at 850,000. More than a quarter of a million are now "isolated in island pockets," bypassed by the U.S. drive to the west. But there are still plenty of reserves. Japan can train and equip 2,000,000 more soldiers without hurting war production...