Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a businessman demands that labor get more pay for less work, that's news. Last week, a big businessman made such news by telling Congress: the U.S. should boost the legal minimum wage from 40?-an-hour to a minimum...
...same time, he recommended that Congress prepare legislation to establish a 40, a 36 and a 30-hour week. Commerce, industry, the trades and agriculture would be classified into three major divisions and three work weeks. But all would get the same weekly minimum wage...
...page report to the Allied Control Council, owlish Professor Calvin Hoover argued: 1) a minimum German living standard equal to the European average was required (not merely allowed) by the Potsdam terms; 2) in order to maintain this standard, Germany must import food and raw materials, export industrial products; 3) Germany's industrial exports must be in the same categories (steel, chemicals) as her prewar exports. On these premises, Hoover's report first proposed an annual German steel production of 6.8 million tons, later raised this to 10 million. The British are willing to see Germany produce...
...mechanism of British legal procedure. But the mechanism worked. The five British officers on the bench, and the learned judge advocate in grey wig and black robe, were dry-voiced and calm. Chief Prosecutor Colonel T. M. Backhouse worked his way through a maze of atrocities with a minimum of emotion (on the trial's tenth day, he went straight from the courtroom to officiate at a wedding...
...Bamboo also does pretty well in a storm. Its tubular construction-reinforced with longitudinal fibers-gives maximum strength for minimum weight. The horizontal joints keep it from swaying too much. Columns made the same way, of either metal or concrete, would be strong, light and hollow...