Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several of the new magnesium makers (Ford among them) use the little-known ferrosilicon process developed by Canada's Lloyd Montgomery Pidgeon. Requiring minimum plant-construction time, the Pidgeon process has been recommended by the National Academy of Sciences as promising the quickest yield with the least risk. Unlike electrolytic methods, it does not require great power. Since it uses dolomite (magnesium-calcium carbonate, one of the most plentiful limestones), plants can be almost anywhere...
Major Streeter's command wants recruits from 20 to 36 (with two years of high school) for enlisted women, from 20 to 50 (with a minimum of two years of college, two years' business experience) for officer candidates. Besides important military work, she can promise them a snappy uniform-forest green blouse and skirt, a snappy cap with a scarlet chin strap, a scarlet muffler for accent on the Marines' traditional color. Wives of Marines are barred. Marriage to a Marine after induction is also forbidden, on pain of being dropped from the Corps. But marriage...
...wire-haired fox terrier) named Delia. She was brown and pawed the air. I poured all my love and affection into her training, working night and day so she would pass the tests. Her size was against her to begin with. She weighed 28 pounds and the minimum is 50. She obeyed me like a machine. She'd sit on a "stay" command while I marched out of sight and no one could budge her. I'd reappear from over a rise perhaps 200 yards away and signal "down" and she would drop like a shot, never taking...
...first notable victory over the rationing problem was scored this week: the Office of Price Administration put shoes on a coupon basis (three pairs-or less-a year*) with a minimum of fuss. For the first time, OPA drew up the order in secret, mailed out instructions to local boards on Saturday night, announced the rationing on Sunday afternoon-effective at once. In Manhattan, gossipy Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia let the secret out prematurely and helped start a run on East Side stores, which remain open Sundays. Elsewhere U.S. citizens were given neither urge nor time for frantic hoarding. Only confusion...
...from 16 to 65, women between 17 and 45 were ordered to register for compulsory labor service. Civilian consumer goods were cut down to the barest necessary minimum. Community kitchens were planned to replace domestic help. Said the SS newspaper Schwarze Korps: "The homeland is to live only in order to work...