Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman, asking for fact-finding, full employment, 65? minimum wages and a permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee in the same scattered charge, had fired without aiming. At least part of his opposition, it turned out, was composed of men with fair and open minds, or at least men whose motives could not be questioned. Some of the committees which had blocked parts of his program had passed others without a quibble. The villains were not obvious villains...
...General, at the same time leaving him in operational control. MacArthur, who had worked largely on his own since the surrender, promptly said that, although he did not like it, he would obey orders. His report was calculated to show that he should be allowed to continue with a minimum of outside interference...
...fancy carriage trade which once dawdled along the Riviera. Now the prewar, wholesome, camera-slung gringo is driving down the splendid 750-mile highway from Laredo, Tex. to Mexico City, to find that spiraling inflation has changed the land of cheap living he remembered. Nightclubs charge a $6 minimum, simple lunches cost...
Congress had also ducked its responsibilities on jobless pay, minimum wages, fair employment practices, small business and scientific research...
...case, Pan Am had forced a whacking reduction in transatlantic fares (from $572). It had also dramatized the question of whether U.S. airlines shall let free competition or I.A.T.A. fix minimum fares on transatlantic routes...