Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrong. One thing wrong: now that the burden of news broadcasts is so grave, their commercials are at best a distraction, at worst an insult to the listener. Last fortnight, at the instance of the Broadcasters' Victory Council, a committee of the National Association of Broadcasters recommended certain minimum rules for news program commercials. Among them...
...stripped of usable men and machines by the Government. Three other industries (refrigerators, washing machines, office machinery & typewriters) got a less publicized but even more enlightening Washington lecture. They were told that WPB has a new conversion policy: 100% real war production for the skilled big fellows, concentration of minimum, essential, civilian production in the smaller plants. Competitive tangles will have to be ironed out later (perhaps via a "Victory" label for all such civilian production). Meanwhile, the little businessman in some industries, at least, has a new lease on life...
...winds up by doing his bit for national defense. Conrad Veidt is adequately sinister as the Nazi leader, but it's Peter Lorre who rings the bell again as the screen's number one menace. Without saying much, he manages to glide on and off the scene with a minimum of effort and a maximum of good solid horror...
...thousand fresh fighter planes, in immediate operation from Rangoon to Darwin, would give the Allies a better than even chance to buck Japan's thinned and scattered Air Force, to save a minimum number of vital airdromes, to hold the skies until U.S. bombers arrived in effective numbers. Even 500 fighters-approximately one group each at five centers-might do the trick, if they arrived immediately and were quickly followed by more...
...Army meteorology course at M.I.T. under the supervision of the Air Corps has been operating on the 18 year minimum for some time. Under a similar change, the Signal Corps course will make it possible for civilians to fulfill requirements leading to a commission regardless of their...