Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further obedience to Congress, "Pink" Harrington last week: 1) warned subordinate officials to shun local, State and national politics, on pain of dismissal; 2) reduced the differences between WPA wages in the South and other regions. He increased the minimum pay for common labor in the South from $19 per month to $31.20 in rural areas, the maximum in cities from $35 to $50.70, meantime readjusting rates elsewhere to hike the national average from $53 to $55.50. Even this beneficence had a shock effect on the South where WPA pay already was sufficiently above private pay (for farm hands, domestics...
...Minimum Losses." Not only was Gamelin a gifted staff officer; the number and quality of his citations in the field make him stand out in the Wartime company of blunderers and butchers like Sir Galahad at a gang shooting...
...conserve manpower, but his shrewd disposition of fire power constantly enhanced the offensive quality of his command. His many citations praised his "highest qualities of method and of inspection" and his ability to carry his objectives "in the course of a general offensive at the cost of minimum losses." The French soldier did not like him less for that and the present French Army does not forget this quality in its Commander-in-Chief. "Very much all there," was the way one British general characterized Gamelin in the War years. He appears, during the entire War, to have made...
...suppression which he later succeeded in accomplishing alone with considerable bloodshed on the part of the Druses. He was on hand when French planes and artillery wiped out 1,456 civilians in the native quarters of Damascus, thus proving that Maurice Gamelin had no particular interest in inflicting minimum losses on his country's enemies. He was made commander of France's Army of the Levant, then brought home in 1928. Three years later he became Chief of Staff and in 1935 achieved what was then the biggest French military job, that of Vice President of the Supreme...
...hours after 11 p. m. are poor sales time, few U. S. stations run a 24-hour schedule. Of these few, WNEW, with its very good friend, the Milkman, has conclusively proved that the after-midnight audience are spenders. Last year 40,000 of them telegraphed requests, at a minimum of 20? a wire...