Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gloomily the kids reentered. And gloomily St. Louis' 2,800 teachers, whose minimum salaries ($1,600) are already less than those of janitors, wondered whether they were to be paid for the holiday enforced...
Over the next few months, said the Allied Emergency Economic Committee for Europe, 100,000,000 Europeans will be down to a daily average of 1,500 calories, and some 140,000,000 will be down to 2,000 calories. (UNRRA considers the "safe minimum" to be about 2,500 calories a day; the U.S. average is about...
...Bermuda. British and American representatives to the three-week-old air conference reached broad agreement. The U.S. gave in to British demands that minimum fares on North Atlantic routes be fixed by regional conference of the International Air Transport Association (an organization of 44 airlines of 24 nations), subject to periodic review by the U.S. and British Governments. In return, the British gave up their attempt to limit the number of trips to be flown by U.S. airlines, dropped all opposition to the "fifth freedom of the air"-i.e., the right of one nation's airlines to pick...
First of Harvard's two present objectives is "to enable the returned serviceman to complete his professional education in a minimum of time; second, to provide for entrance three times a year...
Concluded the Department of Agriculture forebodingly: "There are some farm products for which minimum-price guarantees, within reasonable limits, might not reduce marketings by any serious amount. But cotton is not one of them...