Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ramspeck and his committee went ferreting. They found out that the WASPs, earnest, hard-working and rule-abiding, are nevertheless an expensive experiment. Minimum cost of complete training for a WASP is $20,000-not $12,150, as the War Department once estimated. Of 1,313 women who have gone to WASP training schools, only 541 have graduated; 281 have flunked out; the rest are still in training. Only three WASPs (all of whom were seasoned pilots before they joined) are qualified to fly four-engine bombers. Nineteen WASPs have been killed, eleven in operational flights after graduation...
...found himself between great pressures. Alone, he could never have dismissed ministers who had been loyal to him, even to the point of fighting Partisans who fought for his country's liberation. His power stemmed from Winston Churchill and the British Government, determined to meet Russia's minimum demands for a remodeled, broadened Yugoslav Government. Britain's interest was intelligently selfish: a solution which satisfied Russia, embraced Tito and preserved the monarchy was the only one which could also preserve at least a vestige of British influence in that part of the Mediterranean world...
...spite of ODT's pleas to keep travel at a minimum, there were eleven other big meetings last week-a contrast with last year, when flocking doctors were almost as rare as passenger pigeons...
...rally tonight. The card will feature an eight man free-for-all bout between four rabid copy-boys for PM and Princeton's 1944 polo team. Vag will referee. High tea and blintzes will be served between rounds and shillelaghs may be checked at the door. No cover, no minimum...
...With a minimum of fanfare, U.S. and British oil experts sat down in Washington three weeks ago to formulate a joint worldwide policy on oil. Last week, after a minimum of dissension, they quietly initialed an agreement, passed it along to their Governments for final approval...