Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Federal spending for relief in Ohio had amounted to $80,000,000 a year. When the State itself was presented with the whole bill, a rural-dominated Legislature cut the figure to $15,000,000, later reduced it further. Estimated minimum need of the State: $30,000,000. Families who had been receiving $35 from the U. S. got $9, $10, $12 from the State...
...wrote in the Indianapolis Water Co. case, which established the practice of using "reproduction cost new" of a plant as the basis for valuation in cases where high rates were attacked. Too, Pierce Butler was with the conservative majority which held that the New York State minimum-wage law for women was unconstitutional...
...purpose. Although ideally unlimited opportunities for advanced education are desirable, practically, because of the continued prevalence of low incomes, this is impossible for a large percentage of the population. Thus any increase in the sum total of all education, provided the present standards of culture are kept as a minimum, is extremely valuable...
...There is not a public bombproof shelter in London. A minimum of safety is provided by six feet of concrete covered with earth, yet the London public shelters have only about six inches of concrete. They would not protect against five-pound bombs, let alone 500-pounders...
Procedure. Russia's position was beginning to look embarrassing. Plain fact was that, as soon as City of Flint sailed under the German flag, it risked capture by British warships, faced at the minimum a 1,300-mile voyage through blockaded waters, at least 50 miles of known mine fields, to reach a German port. Equally plain was it that, if Russia permitted the ship to remain in port, she violated international law, that if she released it to her U. S. owner (as the U. S., after a Supreme Court decision, eventually released the Appam), she would antagonize...