Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anti-submarine fleet with new vessels such as the U.S. Navy's 300-ft. Destroyer Escort. The conferees did not devise any quick or cheap "solution," but they set forth exactly what each nation could expect from the others, so that maximum use could be made of woefully minimum equipment. Presumably, they provided for coordination of the various local commands, so that tactics will become both uniform and effective...
...Minimum Agreement." Two decades of a false peace and the impact of global war had changed at least some sections of Senate thinking. The resolution's sponsors, who had sweated over the draft of their document for several weeks and buttonholed many a Senator for his ideas on it, hoped to muster a two-thirds majority...
Explained Joe Ball: U.S. foreign policy should not be determined on the basis of past debates, but on the facts of life. The resolution represents a "minimum as to what the U.S. and other United Nations might agree upon." It would pave the way for nonpartisan cooperation between the Congress and the President in planning the peace...
From the Chinese Embassy in Washington came this: MANY THANKS FOR YOU TELEGRAM. MADAME CHIANG GREATLY APPRECIATES YOUR KIND INVITATION, BUT AS HER ATTENDING PHYSICIANS URGENTLY ADVISE TO REDUCE PUBLIC APPEARANCES TO A MINIMUM DURING PERIOD OF CONVALESCENCE, SHE REGRETS VERY MUCH BEING UNABLE TO AVAIL HERSELF OF THE INVITATION. CHINESE EMBASSY...
...participation in the Army Specialized Program was announced yesterday by the War Department. Men between 18 and 22 who have passed their basic training will be given a special standardized objective test for college aptitude, and a selection board will give its attention to any man who has a minimum score...