Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question was asked: how long will it take to defeat Japan after V-E day? After picking the best brains in the State, War & Navy Departments and the Federal Economic Administration, the OWI came up with an answer: "One and a half to two years . . . is considered an absolute minimum." Other U.S. authorities recalled Vice Admiral Frederick J. Home's warning of a year ago: the U.S. must prepare to fight the war in the Orient until 1949 if need...
Passenger tire production for this year will be between 15,000,000 and 18,000,000 -far short of the scheduled 22,000,000, the estimated minimum tire requirements for civilian cars. Mechanics available to keep cars in repair have fallen some 44,000 short of the needed...
Though not in a combat area, we have served overseas well over the 18 months minimum required. Therefore we think we know the longing with which Joe looks forward to his 21 days at home. Your article did not help to make those precious three weeks any more enjoyable. We are not afraid to face the facts, but we do resent being slapped in the face with them; we learn the unpleasant things fast enough...
...Labor. Virtually all manpower controls are to be abandoned. The 48-hour week should be cut to 40, except in tight labor areas, to spread the work. Czar Jimmy once more begged Congress to pass legislation aiding the states to increase jobless benefits to a minimum of $20 weekly...
...gold mines than in the possibility of increased postwar employment in the gold fields. In the peak year (1941), 33,500 men worked in the Dominion's gold mines. Said Deputy Mines Minister Charles Camsell last week: "The gold mines will employ 67,000 men at the very minimum soon after the war ends...