Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proposing as the minimum basis for the discussion of the peace strikers' aims: "No Convoys; no A. E. F.; and democracy in defense; no racial discrimination by the armed forces," the temporary strike committee will decide the complete policy in Thursday's meeting of peace groups...
...Freer competition should be guaranteed by 1) elimination of interstate trade barriers; 2) repeal of the Miller-Tydings Act (which gives Federal blessing to State minimum-price laws); 3) elimination of basing-point price systems. The price system for soft coal set up by the Guffey Act was found to contain the "germs" of Fascism. (Congress renewed it for two years last week...
...Italians had started the war with six battleships, had perhaps commissioned two more since. Three had been damaged at Taranto, but two were probably repaired since. The Vittorio Veneto, which was commanded in this engagement by Chief of Staff Admiral Arturo Riccardi, was hurt again. Net: maximum, six; minimum, three...
Britons' hunger is conditioned by two thing.: 1) the scarcity of refrigerator cargo space, 2) the constant bombing of gas mains, which puts a premium on food that does not have to be cooked. They also want the maximum of food in the minimum of space. This means they want as much of their meat as possible in tins, which is not the way the U. S. is accustomed to packing it. The Argentine tins meat, but can supply the British only to the extent that the U. S. can send her tin plate (which she normally gets from...
...unnecessary to put the whole German nation to the sword. It is more humane to sterilize them. "The army groups, as organized units, would be the easiest and quickest to deal with. Taking 20,000 surgeons as an arbitrary number and on the assumption that each will perform a minimum of 25 operations daily, it would take no more than one month, at the maximum, to complete their sterilization. . . . The balance of the male civilian population of Germany could be treated within three months. Inasmuch as sterilization of women needs somewhat more time, it may be computed that the entire...