Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States and American Merchant lines. Excepting the Leviathan, these ships are, for the most part, of the "President" class formerly sold to the Munson and Dollar interests for little more than $1,000,000 each, with the stipulation, however, that the buyers would continue the service for a minimum of five years...
...object was to produce an animal that, on minimum food, would work harder in hot weather than a mule. This he succeeded in doing, although the zebroids are difficult to break to harness However, at six years old, the eight zebroids do any farm work that horses perform, and can unquestionably stand far more heat, which is the purpose of the zebra strain. The beasts are docile and intelligent in harness, but race boisterously once loosened in an enclosure, showing speed and agility in pivoting at corners, rivaling panthers in their ease in clearing fences. If the beasts are corraled...
Publication of the new rules caused the unconvicted public to marvel at "compensations" allowed by the old code. Hereafter, prisoners receiving indeterminate sentences ("five to ten" or "ten to fifteen" years) must serve the minimum term named. (Before, if sentenced for "five to ten years," a prisoner might get out in three years and nine months by earning, for "satisfactory work" and good behavior, three months' "compensation" in each of his first four years...
Formal Surrender. At Camp Giradot, near Taza, Mohammed ben Abd-El-Krim performed the official gesture of laying down his arms. A minimum of ceremony was observed by the French, since Spain has long exerted pressure to have the upstart "Sultan" treated as a mere tribal chief upon his surrender. General Boichut resolved this situation with great tact, announced that he had sprained his ankle, sent a group of subordinate officers to receive the sword of Krim...
...strike was only averted (TIME, Aug. 10) when the present Baldwin Conservative Government granted a £20,000,000 coal subsidy, which sustained the 1924 wage level artificially until last week, when the subsidy expired. During the week Premier Baldwin persuaded the Owners' Association to offer a national minimum wage 20%* higher than the pre-War scale, if the Miners' Federation would accept an increase in the hours of labor from seven to eight. The miners stood by the slogan of their fiery Secretary, A. J. ("Emperor") Cook: "Not a penny off wages, not a minute off working hours." Despite...