Word: archimedean
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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Wage Floor. The implications of a worldwide minimum wage are enormous. Its proposal by a member of an Empire Government, even in unofficial capacity, is arresting. Was he thinking of China? India? the Malay States? Or was he groping for some Archimedean machine to pull Britain, the U.S., Russia into line on a world trade basis? Morrison said only that his purpose was to eliminate "that worst of all forms of competition, which is based on the abject poverty and misery of the workers in socially backward countries...
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