Word: minima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Other reporter top-minima under existing Guild contracts: New York, $90; Philadelphia, $78; Detroit, $65; San Antonio, $56; San Francisco...
...these soaring increases is already in sight. The minima of pessimism at Chicago were an estimated 10 to 15% drop in 1943 sales for the chains, and a sickening 25% dive in tonnage volume. Reasons...
Exclusive of the Air Forces (which Pundit Lippmann excepted from his suggested reduction) the Army today numbers a round 1,400,000 in officers and men. For purely defensive purposes, military experts now consider that the U.S. Army needs as minima these forces outside the continental U.S.: Iceland, 15,000; Philippine Islands, 160,000; Canal Zone and Caribbean bases, 200,000; Hawaii, 200,000; Alaska, 110,000. Total 685,000. For permanent establishments in the U.S., to man fixed.bases, provide anti-aircraft and air defense for the coasts, it needs a minimum of 1,000,000 more. It also needs...
...price of cotton and wheat from going to still more invitingly speculative levels, Mr. Roosevelt last week vetoed the bill to freeze Government loan stocks of those two commodities. And before this session of Congress is ended, he will probably ask legislation to permit cutting wheat and cotton acreage minima still lower...