Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...182No let-up in British austerity. Almost every dollar will go for food (to maintain minimum rations) or raw materials (to get factories going). Last week clothes-short Britons heard that all their silks and high-grade woolens would be reserved for export...
...official U.S.-prescribed minimum level of German diet (estimated at 1,550 calories per German per day), calculated to be just high enough to prevent "disease and unrest...
...this country in time of peace as he was a squalid nuisance in time of war." He called vegetarian Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade "a national disaster," cried that "these ethereal beings [vegetarians] do produce a very great volume of intellectual output with a minimum of working costs in fuel...
...said Britain, must accept the principle that the International Air Transport Association, recently formed by the airlines of some 24 nations, shall fix minimum international fares. Until Pan Am agrees to this principle, it can fly to London only twice a week, even at $375. Pan Am refused to agree to I.A.T.A.'s rule, planned a trick play...
...look so smart. CAB has warned American that if Pan Am is held to two flights, then American must reduce its flights to two also. If this happens, Britain and controlled competition will have made a touchdown. It will have succeeded in keeping U.S. transatlantic flights to a minimum till it feels it is strong enough to win the competitive game...