Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a life of only three weeks, the gasoline rationing plan has revealed one flaw which would wreck the whole program even if the number of consumers holding unlimited privileges were cut to the absolute minimum. The very existence of X-cards, regardless of the number of them actually issued, has made gypping so easy that there is no way of detecting...
...also good radio, Workshop workmen attempt to transfer a chapter of a book to the air without adapting (i.e., rewriting) it. The first broadcast- the opening chapter of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's Flight to Arras-followed the book faithfully, slipping from narration to dialogue with a minimum of theatrics or sound effects...
Operaman Gallo keeps out of the red by paring expenses to the bone. Instead of having an executive staff, he handles all decisions and details himself, working at a rolltop desk in a mousy Broadway office building. He pays no fancy salaries: minimum for principals is $40 a performance. On the road, San Carlo's orchestra numbers only 23, the total company 100-odd. Expense-conscious Fortune Gallo once spied the orchestra's harpist strolling down the street while a Rigoletto performance was going on, angrily inquired why he was not in the pit. To the harpist...
...shells ashore to cover landings, and to engage enemy battleships. But task-force commanders cannot use the husky old tubs of battleships that the Japs attacked in Pearl Harbor; the older 18-to-20 knot battleships are through as striking-force units. Speed of nearly 30 knots is a minimum requirement. Up Airmen. President Roosevelt is aware of the supreme importance of air power. Last week he was about to promote Rear Admiral John Henry Towers, chief of the Navy's aeronautics bureau. Towers will become vice admiral, will be assistant chief of naval operations. The "scrambled eggs" (gold...
...weaknesses or imbalance of an enemy's position, and at acting swiftly and mercilessly for a fall or a kill. Kiralfy analyzes the reasoning by which the Japanese grasped the unrealism of U.S. military thinking and for years prepared for a kind of warfare in which, with a minimum of forces, they could take crushing advantage of U.S. weak points. Weakest of these weak points, Kiralfy believes, was the U.S. notion that Japan could be blockaded into submission or into a naval engagement in which its inferior fleet would be destroyed. "In the democratic plan to defeat Japan...