Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against these two armies is ranged an enemy who probably knows he must die and intends to take as many of the Allies with him as he can. The Americans want to take their positions with a minimum number of casualties, not from fear but because of a desire to finish the job with a strong force still in hand. The Australians want to get the job over. The majority of Australian objectives have been gained with bayonet charges. Both methods are achieving their purpose, and the slow grip of strangulation tightens round Japan's last Papuan garrison...
This is not to say that we believe a world federation or anything like it can be established during the immediate post-war period. But we feel very strongly that the moderate minimum proposed by Professors Wild, Kohn, and Buell should be made strategically at the last moment, not weakly in advance. Wilson kept his aims but in the crucial Senate battle, failed to compromise; if we limit our demands now, we shall find ourselves unable to make the compromise which unfortunately will be required. The peace after this war must not be lost because of careless tactics...
...building a Liberty ship (average cost $1,800,000), the standard contractor's fee, covering undefined "overhead," is $110,000-based on a par building time of 105 days. Days saved can raise the fee to a $140,000 maximum; days over par can dock it to a minimum of $60,000. Every item chargeable to the building of a ship the Maritime Commission pays. Thus Pete Newell and associates stand to make more than $5 million on the 84 ships without putting up a nickel of their own, and despite alleged incompetence, inefficiency and delay...
...finally in sight, the Harvard Service Fund will end its active canvassing this week, John Richardson, Jr. '43, treasurer of the drive, announced last night. A total of $8000 has been collected since registration, and when the remaining contributions pledged have been collected in the next few days, the minimum set in the fall will be reached...
Into the triangle of Sardinia, Sicily and Tunisia he poured air strength. Reports last week were that he already had 1,000 planes in the area. By stripping European, Russian, Balkan, Italian air forces to the minimum, he could put an estimated 3,000 planes into the area, possibly prevent the junction of Allied North African forces, win himself more time to bolster his defenses of southern Europe...