Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assumed on the day Germany invaded Poland was to transform a worse-than-disarmed U.S. into the world's most effective military power-and in time. In four years General Marshall was personally responsible for, at the minimum, these seven achievements...
...that time members of the News, Business, and Photographic boards will start the candidates out on a competition of a minimum of four weeks, but one that will let up in order not to interfere with exams. This competition offers to the new Freshmen who now have their feet on the ground an opportunity to participate in one of Harvard's more noted extra curricular activities. The unique feature of a SERVICE NEWS competition is that previous experience is not necessary since a college paper is not like the high school paper that one might have worked...
...predicted that manpower and machinery shortages will make the mines fall well short of next year's 620,000,000-ton goal. Said OWI last week: "While Britain has become accustomed to 'no coal for comfort,' the U.S. enters 1944 on a basis of 'minimum comfort...
...Ickes' Foreign Operations Committee avers that private enterprise is the better means to insure U.S. participation in world oil because "private enterprise can operate with a minimum of political complications." Mr. Ickes maintains just as stoutly that no foreign nation would dare to toy with a U.S. Government interest, as it might (and has in Mexico) with privately owned corporations...
...faster than it is being replaced. Half the freight cars and passenger coaches are more than 20 years old, locomotives are limping along without major overhauls, roadbeds are rough and many are dangerous. Yet WPB has consistently cut down the allocation of materials the railroads have set as their minimum needs. Thus the rails' plea for 2.1 million tons of new rail in 1943 was slashed to 1.5. Result: derailments are dangerously frequent. Anticipating the 15% increase in freight ton-miles in 1943, the carriers begged for at least 80,000 new freight cars, finally got less than...