Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...talked on "Common Sense in the Oil Industry," said no more about his "no compromise" position. Said he: "The idea that it might be possible that the 'collecting department' [that which supplies the public] could be some Government or combination of buyers who will dictate to the producer the minimum with which he ought to be content so that he may be kept alive, is bound to be shortlived because it is entirely illogical. . . . Do not be led away by the noise of publications about Trusts. . . . What is to be done? . . . My advice is: Let us create 'an association...
Metropolitan Hysteria. A low-flying plane crashed on a building in crowded Manhattan last fortnight. The police, somewhat hysterical, threatened to require flyers to keep at least 7,000 ft. above the ground. Department of Commerce regulations stipulate 1,000 ft. as minimum over congested areas. To quiet metropolitan hysteria two planes of the Gates Flying Service last week cut off their motors at 3,000 ft. over the centre of the island and glided, with moderate wind to help them, to safe, dead stick landings at New York's outskirts. An ordinary commercial plane has an average gliding ratio...
...announcement in today's CRIMSON of a minimum board charge of $7.50 in the new Houses comes as a gesture of sympathy to the widespread opinion that the former charge was too high. A few men will benefit by the change, but the chief evil in the system has in no way been mitigated. With an average price of $.75 per meal, only the most wealthy can afford to take advantage of the plan and by eating breakfast in the House free themselves from the necessity of eating a disproportionate number of lunches and dinners there. Since these...
Undoubtedly many clubs will find that the large minimum charge required for board in the Houses will make it impossible to serve meals in the clubhouses. In many cases this can hardly fail to result in the eventual dissolution of the clubs so affected. It is, however, well known that many of the clubs have had pretty hard sledding even under past conditions and that even more have been founded purely as a means of mitigating the unpleasantness of eating around. If the atmosphere in the Houses approximates even to a limited degree the attractiveness hoped for by its well...
...however, as is earnestly hoped, some revision downward may be made in the minimum board charge, there will be ample opportunity for the existence of clubs which serve one meal a day. Such organizations have a successful prototype in the Metropolitan lunch clubs, and would perform a valuable service in bringing men of different Houses together several times a week. A revision of the club system in this direction would retain most of the real advantages of the present system and do away with the isolated clique tendency which finds its fullest and worst development in so many other American...