Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under Dewey's new plan, teachers in small communities would get a permanent minimum of $2,000, a maximum of $4,100. Cities over 100,000 population (such as Buffalo) would have $2.200 minimums, $4,510 maximums. Buffalo's striking Federation said this would mean that only 236 teachers would get more than a $35 raise next year. New York City's teachers were guaranteed $2,500 minimums (the active minimum already in effect, including a $300 emergency raise good until April...
...favorite Riviera vacation spots. But Frachon could not get away. As Communist boss of the Confederation General du Travail, he was directing one of the most massive and delicate operations in French labor history. His problem was to maneuver the C.G.T.'s six million members so as to take maximum political advantage of the bitter discontent arising from high living costs. The delicacy arose from an inhibition familiar to all Communist leaders: Frachon must not let his workers' drive for higher wages disrupt Russia's worldwide grand strategy. For example, anything approaching a Communist-led general strike in France would...
Although coach Mikkola is getting the maximum amount of mileage out of his sprinters, this department, together with the broad-jump, is perhaps the weakest on the squad. Otherwise, the current track team bears the typical Mikkola stamp--overwhelmingly powerful in the field events, good in the hurdles, not so good in some of the running events...
...Including 106-lb. Jockey Doug Dodson and a pound and a half of saddle. The rest was lead, in serted in a pad under the saddle, since the track handicapper had given Armed the maximum weight to carry. The added weight slows a horse down, gives lighter-weight lesser lights a chance...
...only one of the highest arts, it is also a pretty tough business. In the music business, austere, unapproachable Arthur Judson has the making or breaking of scores of careers. James Caesar Petrillo sets the minimum wages for U.S. musicians; it is Judson who often gets the maximum for the best ones. Judson was once a professional violinist, but he learned early that there is more money in managing artists than in being one. The money he gets from the Philharmonic is peanuts to him ($15,000 a year) but the prestige and power count. Today his Columbia Concerts...