Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Additional nominations may be made by submitting petitions with a minimum of 25 names on or before Thursday to George I. Bell '48 in Lowell House P-31. Chairman of the Nominations Committee, Bell Stated yesterday that these elections would bring the Council to within one short of its normal complement of 17; the departure at the end of this term of Clinton M. Ritchie '47, Council president, and Jerome I. Andrews NROTC, will, however, necessitate three more appointments next term...
...this determined move to impose its own minimum fares, Britain had the potent help of Pan Am's chief competitor, American Overseas Airlines. In London, American Overseas' board chairman, John E. Slater, joyfully told a reporter: the Air Ministry had given American the right to fly seven planes a week into England-at its present high fare of $572. Pan Am would be cut from five flights to two. Reason for this favoritism: American was "willing to let the Governments," instead of competition, set the rates...
...this morsel of plot and a minimum of action Playwright Brown somehow squeezes enough to keep an audience pretty interested. He does it largely through brisk talk and lively G.I. gags and through the human, antiheroic picture he paints of soldier life. But though he can squeeze out interest, he cannot distill feeling or significance. The theme of his play is a sense of comradeship which is not just part of a code and which tough, cynical soldiers can no more escape than they can explain. But Playwright Brown cannot explain it for them-or even make it seem real...
...basis of population and area served.-This order heartened television pioneers who feared a free-for-all fight, once receiving sets were on the market. But the best part of the FCC ruling was an order to commercial television stations to get busy, increase their broadcasting time to a minimum of 28 hours a week (twice as much as the present best average in New York). This boost in time will encourage manufacturers to rush new sets. Thus far, a price up to $500 has been too steep for such an idle gadget...
...Chemistry prize for 1945 went to Professor Ilmari Artturi Virtanen, 50, of Finland, who is almost unknown outside Scandinavia. His specialty: agricultural biochemistry. Scandinavian dairymen are grateful to him for a method of preserving green cattle fodder with minimum loss of food value...