Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cruiser Bill. By agreement with Senator Borah, in charge of the Kellogg treaty, Senator Frederick Hale of Maine, in charge of the Cruiser Bill, opened the session with a Cruiser Bill speech. He argued that the proposed 15 cruisers do not constitute a "big Navy," but represent only the minimum additions required to keep the Navy at a respectable defensive strength. Immediately following this speech, the Senate took up the Kellogg treaty, indefinitely postponing debate on the cruisers...
...well as office help. And this vacation will be with pay, an unusual arrangement in the industrial world. Meanwhile Henry Ford, announcing jobs for 30,000 more men in his Detroit plants,* declared himself in favor of a different method of assuring leisure to workingmen. His employes, drawing a minimum wage of $5 a day, will work only five days a week, be laid off two. Said Ford: "A six-day week is all right for machines but a five-day week is enough for men." Crowds of 25,000 and more swarmed last week at the gates...
During his Great Western period Mr. Chrysler lived in Oelwein, Iowa. His mechanical curiosity was aroused by the two or three horseless thing-a-ma-jigs that sometimes moved through the streets, especially on Sundays, chugging and snorting and kicking up dust with a maximum of noise and a minimum of grace. They were called "automobiles" and Oelwein's farmers agreed contemptuously with turn-of-the-century cartoonists that the only difference between an automobilist and a dum-fool was that the dumfool was prob'ly born that way and couldn't help it. Engineer Chrysler gave...
...long before the whole business is at a standstill. The rapid generation of new and less inclusive teams to satisfy the longings of those who wish to see their favorite on some battalion of honor needs but a season or two to produce the irreducible minimum. When the all eastern eleven becomes divided into an all Hanover team, an all Cambridge team, an all New Haven team, and so on down even to an all New Jersey team, the cravings of the boys who love to fool themselves will be filled; and happily to relate everyone will be just where...
...invitation to prepare for the next one, in Nicaragua or a place like that, or whether it was not just the advertisement of a firm such as supplies uniforms for military schools and training camps--a masculine pendant to the Sunday supplement's illustrations of the minimum requirements to clothe the female form devine...The impression given by the work was a mistaken one, or almost that. The picture was not a poster, it was a Sargent!...And now at last, he had got down to the level of the subway...