Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Year-Olds. "I believe that it will be necessary to lower the present minimum age limit for Selective Service from 20 years down to 18. We have learned how inevitable that is-and how important to the speeding up of victory...
Precisely this basic decision seemed to have been made just last week?exactly ten months after Pearl Harbor. At least in its essentials, the decision even appeared to have been made?wrapped up and delivered in its minimum detail (so many weapons for so many men in such & such a time) to Donald Nelson, Paul McNutt and other key civilians who had to have the information before they could effectively get on with their jobs...
Other features of the expedition which more than redeemed the day, the pickers claim, were the large amount of cider provided by the farmer, the length of the lunch hour, and the minimum of work required the rest of the afternoon...
...time when clamor for a second front has given rise to serious questioning of the strength and integrity of our Russian allies, a film like this carefully prepared and intelligently presented account of the U.S.S.R.'s struggle against the Nazis is welcome fare. With a minimum of bravado and a maximum of restraint and straightforward presentation, "Moscow Strikes Back" paints a graphic and moving picture of heroic proportions about the struggle in which the Red Armies and the Russian people are now engaged. Every scene is packed with action, action that wasn't prepared in advance by scriptwriters and directors...
...falsely identifying the New Deal with communism, the Post jumps the political fence, dividing the American people into two groups: the elite and those who are "relatively useless." This second group "are unable to contribute enough to society to warrant more than a minimum human living standard." Not content to attack progressive, democratic government, these editors flatly deny that millions of Americans have the potential ability to achieve a security and a dignity for themselves...