Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charter for the High Commission, published last week, cuts Allied interference in German affairs to a minimum. Except in emergencies, the commission will act only through the federal German government and the eleven Länder (state) governments. Occupation troops remain in their present zones, but henceforth may deal with the Germans only through a Lander Commissioner (appointed by the high commissioner of his zone). The new government will join the OEEC and sign an ERP agreement with the U.S. Instead of the past separate patterns in each zone, occupation policy will become uniform throughout Western Germany...
...Manhattan, Rootes Motors, Inc. rented out its British-made Hillman autos for as long as two weeks with gas and oil free (minimum weekly charge: $65) and promised to deduct rental payments if the renter bought the car ($1,795). Like other British automakers, Rootes also offered tourists the chance to pay for a car in the U.S., pick it up and drive it in England this summer, and have it shipped back free of charge...
Sweepers to help them. In 1788, partly because of Hanway's appeals, Parliament set the minimum age for climbing-boys at eight years...
Fifteen years later the House of Lords hesitantly passed a bill which merely raised the minimum age for climbing-boys to ten. It was 1840 before climbing-boys were legally abolished, and the law was still full of holes a small boy could get through. In 1864, under the sponsorship of the last, great champion of the climbing-boys, Lord Shaftesbury, the regulations were tightened, and in 1875 the practice was finally broken-67 years after Britain had abolished Negro slavery...
...basis for letter giving is based on participation in a certain percentage of scheduled games, or on a minimum number of minutes spent in intercollegiate competition, with the Yale game being given extra weight...