Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National War Labor Board set a new minimum wage last week for U.S. industry. The minimum: 55? an hour. The Board jacked up the wage floor from 50? simply by issuing a new definition of "substandard" wages, the same method it used to authorize raises to 50,000 textile workers a fortnight...
...appropriation bills are debated fiercely. Even if Parliament should be called to pass them, would there be time? If Parliament did not meet at all, the Government could, in a pinch, have the Governor General issue warrants for expenditures. But would Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King deem that method undemocratic, politically dangerous, expedient, wise...
Announced in Manhattan last week was a cure for penicillin's handicaps. Dr. Raymond L. Libby, American Cyanamid Co. biophysicist, reported that he had perfected a method of administering the drug by mouth. Now the way has been paved for treatment at home...
...Libby method: the drug is suspended in an oil (indigestible by the stomach) and enclosed in a capsule. In the stomach, the capsule dissolves and the penicillin passes into the small intestine in the oil, where it is absorbed by the blood...
...list of 25 naval needs. Some of them: ¶A shockproof, non-parachute aerial delivery container, cheap enough to be thrown away after one drop. A light to mark beaches, which will work on light weight rechargeable batteries, be visible from 5,000 yards at sea. ¶ A method of welding light-gauge aluminum, "of particular importance since aluminum lifeboats and rafts are currently of riveted construction due to lack of a satisfactory method of welding." ¶A chemical fire extinguisher, which, when used around electrical equipment, will not generate phosgene or other poisonous gases. ¶A "non-slipping" shoe...