Word: minimum
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...capable organizer, Lovett had built a big reputation as a man who could get things done with a minimum of fuss and a maximum of effectiveness. He was credited with streamlining the cumbersome peacetime structure of the Army Air Corps. He persuaded the brasshats to give the Air Corps a large measure of autonomy. He pleaded, cajoled and begged for bombers and more bombers. He got them, and they made the U.S. Army Air Forces the mightiest striking force in the world...
...exchange one employer for another without necessarily removing the causes for labor unrest. Up to now Congress has confined its questing to drastic and eventually repressive cure-all measures, and has neglected to explore the possibilities of limited intervention in major industrial tie-ups to insure only the bare minimum of production or services essential to the public health and safety. While the problems of working out a pattern of limited intervention in strikes in essential industries or utilities is not a simple one, the results of such action offer more benefits to industry and to the nation's than...
Cross emphasized that only minimum living expenses were included in the poll averages, and noted the fact that other items naturally varied from person to person. The survey, he said, was designed to reach a representative cross-section of the student body...
Under these scorching deserts lies an ocean of oil, the fabulous wealth of the Arabian Nights. The ocean contains a minimum of 26 billion barrels (1¼ times the proved reserves of the U.S.), a maximum of 150 billion barrels. How much is this worth? In cash, enough to make a hundred Rockefellers; as a military asset, as nations count, it is beyond price...
Something for Free. Standard is equally sensitive to the cry of "dollar imperialism." In foreign countries, Standard's subsidiaries work ceaselessly to become a part of the country. They keep their U.S. employees at a minimum, train natives or send them to the U.S. for schooling. Actually, Standard has probably done the best job of any U.S. company in selling free enterprise along with its oil. Nor has it been discouraged by its setbacks. The war cost it an estimated $135,000,000 in damaged properties; the expropriations by Mexico cost it more than $22 million...