Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stipulations. Although the terms of the treaty were not published, it became known that the principle of most-favored-nation treatment* had been conceded by both nations for a large number of imports. Germany granted a minimum tariff on French wines, perfumes, soaps, woolens, porcelains and several manufactured articles, while France agreed to admit at minimum rates German electrical, chemical, mechanical and other manufactured products. Furthermore, in December, 1928, discrimination against certain classes of German goods by France will cease and the lowest French tariff rate will be applied uniformly to all classes of German imports...
...express rates were arranged last week. President Cowie thought the minimum charge would be $1. (Air mail charge is ten cents for each half ounce regardless of distance...
...makes no distinction between them is distressing, because it harms business. Representatives of the musicians' union point out that "saxophone strugglers, trombone contortionists, bass drummers and French horn oompahs" have been admitted into the U. S. as "artists," thereby flooding the market for musicians and reducing the wage minimum, much as was the case when steel laborers were imported from Europe in former years...
...farmer," he said, "wants no governmental price-fixing on his products and he courts the minimum of state control of his affairs. (Government control of crop surplus and government price-fixing for its disposition were outstanding features of the McNary-Haugen bill.) "I can see," added Mr. McKelvie, "the possibility, aye, the probability, of a system of cooperative marketing fostered by the government under which the farmer may retain his independence and initiative while working out his problems." The Lowden program, Mr. McKelvie observed, "shows how far afield politically minded men will go" when discussing the topic of farm relief...
...Engineers meets four times yearly. Last week it convened at Denver. A local news scrivener described the Society's board of directors: "Coats off, collars loosened, the 20 men plunged into deliberation and piles of papers. For three hours they worked as only engineers can work-with a minimum of talk and a maximum of thought." A less exciting impression of what civil engineers do at a convention was given by John F. Stevens, the Society's stern-faced president: "The principal reason for the convention is to establish a bond of brotherhood. . . . We will consider routine business...