Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...survive imprisonment, but, exiled for years to come, must report periodically to the Guiana authorities). Meanwhile there was the listless scramble for barest necessities of existence. Few as these were after prison fare, the possibilities of work were fewer still, since employers preferred gangs of supervised prisoners available at minimum wage. Michel, marveled at his long-lost joie de vivre, remembered his ambitions, and the oath that never would he degenerate to a contemptible liberé, crouched on his empty barrow awaiting a stray commission. But there he was, and there the Guiana vulture, bird of ill omen, flapped...
...cent fare would not eliminate the almost homicidal crushes on the I. R. T. at rush hours. Why, wondered economists, would it not be to the city's and the I. R. T.'s mutual advantage to allow more than one fare, keeping a 5-cent minimum? The London Underground and the Paris Metro and Nord-Sud sell tickets of various classes. Why not have 10-cent or even 25-cent turnstiles for thousands of riders who would pay to escape the cattle-like stampede? The extra revenue would provide extra cars to accommodate the 5-centers...
...three sons carried on the business; George is Chairman, John is President.* They are unique: although they are heads of a mammoth nation-wide company dealing in vital commodities, they are permitted to lead a life of almost absolute seclusion from the public. Thus a minimum of publicity ensued from a romantic interlude in which President John Hartford was divorced from his wife, married his wife's modiste, remarried his first wife, as a result of which the modiste-wife told great tales of living at the rate of $225,000 per year. Had such colorful news been connected...
Even pinch-dollar voyagers who count the cost of a first class passage must admit that last week the S. S. Majestic gave surplus value for her $265 minimum first class fare. The bonus was in the form of a spry though greying couple who appeared on the passenger list as "Mr. and Mrs, John Robinson." On the third night out John Robinson mounted the Majesties concert platform and cried genially: "Look here, you people, I am Henry Ford and I will show you how to amuse yourselves in the proper way. What about old-fashioned dances...
...power plants must include not only hydro-electric but steam-driven generators. "We must mix the white coal [water power] with the black coal [thermic power]," declares Signor Motta, "[to] make up for the deficiency of water power in years of minimum rain fall...