Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reservists' days will be full with a requirement of 24 hours per week of classroom and laboratory work, a minimum of 24 hours per week of outside preparation, and a scheduled 11 hours per week of drill and calisthenics, all of which does not include the other assigned tasks, such as cleaning rooms...
Even for this minimum goal the great powers would have to get along in the thousand details, big and small, of inter national diplomacy. Otherwise the post-Tenement of war may be pathetically short-lived...
...anticipate countermoves of the Germans. The Fortresses can-and have-fought their way through any kind of opposition to their targets; German defenses have never yet turned them back. But the less opposition they encounter, the more effective is their bombing. The Allied offensive is planned to assure the minimum of resistance...
...finally up against the hard fact that it has more jobs than workers and that the disparity is growing. Employment is at an alltime high (54.3 millions); unemployment is at the "irreducible minimum." Yet the aircraft industry needs 600,000 workers quick; and the armed forces will haul away another two million men by next July...
...Minister, Raffaele Guariglia. The Chief of the Italian General Staff, General Vittorio Ambrosio, joined them, "on the germans' invitation," in "important discussions." From the German point of view these discussions had only two objects: maximum, to hold the Badoglio Government to its Axis alliance for war and/or peace; minimum, to keep Italy in the war long enough for Germany to get forces and matériel down through the Brenner to hold a de fensive line south of the Po. But German broadcasts stopped using the word "Axis...