Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union in condemning Chaucer's Canterbury Tales because of their supposedly being a stimulus to race prejudice. One can only gasp in shocked amazement that any group of presumably educated educators could arrive at such a completely untenable opinion. Had these pedagogical-engineers read Chaucer with even the minimum of understanding, they would have discovered an author more cognizant of the ills of humanity than many a more recent writer and would have found him a champion of moderation and toleration of all types. Far from advocating the banning of Chaucer's poetry from the curriculum, Local...
...deepest surgery ever practiced on U.S. taxes-the slicing off of $5.9 billion -was completed without fuss or flowers. For what once would have been considered a miracle of scalpel work, Congress engaged in a minimum of consultations beforehand, a minimum of self-congratulation afterward. The taxpayer, though assured the operation had been a success, felt hardly better...
...recent commander of the U. S. S. Wyoming, was assigned to run Columbia's V-12 and NROTC programs at the beginning of the present term. The naval undergraduates at Columbia found Captain Wellings "an old salt who insists on complete compliance with his orders, and with a minimum of controversy and dissension," according to a member of the Spec staff...
This suggestion came from dapper, poker-faced Robert Wood Johnson, 53, wartime brigadier general (in Ordnance and as boss of the Smaller War Plants Corp.) and board chairman of Johnson & Johnson (surgical supplies). To a Senate labor subcommittee, now considering a bill to raise the minimum to 65? an hour, Johnson said: not high enough; the U.S. can now "pay higher wages and sell at lower costs. This equation needs no proof beyond the record of the past 50 years, . . . We can honestly say, at least in our country, that man does not have the right to employ his fellow...
...Johnson's best argument was his own company. It now has the highest minimum wage in the industry. Average hourly earnings for day work, excluding overtime and premiums, are 76? for women and 85? for men, while piecework rates run higher. In his southern textile mills Johnson pays a minimum now of 65?-at least 10? higher than competitors...