Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into Senate and House hoppers went identical bills amending the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, lifting its 40?minimum hourly wage to 65? (and to 75?after two years). The work week would drop to 40 hours when 75? was reached. Industry committees, under special circumstances, could drive basic pay rates upward even faster...
...Labor Board to regard all wages below 65? (instead of 55?, as at present) as substandard. And two days later, 70 House members had signed a petition asking President Truman to revise the battered Little Steel formula, permit a boost of at least 20% in the basic pay rate "to avoid sowing the seeds of a disastrous depression...
...Government was still dominated by Russia through Polish Communists and fellow travelers. Last week the election promise was deferred. Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski announced that he, personally, would like to see an election soon, but "until harvesting, repatriation and resettlement are finished, we must not divert attention from these basic tasks." Since repatriation and resettlement involve several million people, the Polish election was in effect indefinitely postponed...
...pleases his fancy, then plots this combination on graph paper to make a blueprint that looks promising. The blueprint, transcribed into musical notation, is the piece of music the "engineer" set out to construct. Shaw promised that the Schillinger system could provide 10,000 rhythmic combinations from the 19 basic rhythms used by Mozart and Beethoven...
...auto dealer, whose daughter, pert Kathryn Lee, a musicomedy dancer, wanted to be a highbrow ballerina.) Said Massine, flushed with the opening success of Highlights: "My conception of repertoire is the same as that of chamber music in relation to symphony. ... I feel I am restoring some of the basic elements of Russian ballet. . . . Today ballet has become, with big companies, a kind of musical comedy...