Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Encouraged by the "partnership" policy during the first Eisenhower term, long-dormant private companies have meshed with local public utilities since 1952 to open up new projects adding some 4,500,000 kw. to the Northwest power pool. But such projects are chiefly local, barely keep abreast of minimum needs...
Land, Ho! In Paris, Police Chief Robert Genebrier ruled that the minimum distance between saloons be increased from a navigable 150 ft. to a risky...
...strengthen the Guard in order to make it "a solid base" upon which to construct the country's military organization has resulted in a mandatory six-month, active-duty training period for all Guardsmen and Reservists who enlist after April first. This six-month period will be a minimum training requirement for all branches of the service, with one minor exception in the case of men under 18 1/2 years of age in the National Guard...
...first of next month. These programs require no active duty, but merely from 6 to 11 years of ready reserve depending upon the program chosen. The ready reserve involves weekly two-hour drill sessions forty-eight times during the year (actually this can be lowered to a minimum of 42 times a year) and two weeks each summer at a training camp...
However, in the interests of uniform military requirements and in order to keep the confusion which normally surrounds enlistment opportunities at a minimum, this program should be adopted as a permanent part of our military system, unless it is to become merely an emergency measure for the remedying of a temporary reserve crisis. Since the basic purpose behind the six-month program does not appear to be of this temporary nature, any move to transform it would be unwise...