Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lindley complain is grossly misnamed, because its only concrete provision is to budget the national production, employment and income. Again he asked for a permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee, for supplementing State unemployment compensation by boosting payments to a $25-for-26-weeks maximum. He bluntly called the 40? minimum-wage level "obsolete"-a follow-up on the disclosure by Economic Stabilizer William H. Davis that the Government hopes to raise real wages by 40% to 50% without, by some economic magic, raising prices. And he demanded a multi-billion-dollar development and construction program...
...grip. The way it stood last week, Army enlisted men (with a few exceptions among needed special technicians) could get out if they had 80 points (WACs, 41 points) as of Sept. 2, 1945; if they were 38 years or over; if they were 35-37 and had a minimum of two years of honorable service. Officers, hitherto excluded from the general point system of release, will get out only if they have the following score: warrant officer, flight officer-80 points; second lieutenant to captain-85; major to colonel-100. Generals can get out if they are no longer...
...activities. Dimitroff's onetime Agrarian Party colleague, General Nicola Petkoff, began to organize his own party, probably in cooperation with the opposition wings of three other parties (Radical, Democratic, Social Democratic). Opposition leaders demanded that the present election law be amended to conform with the Constitution (i.e., minimum voting age be raised from 19 to 21, minimum age for candidates from 23 to 30), insisted that the key Ministry of the Interior be transferred to a "neutral" incumbent...
...Canceled the minimum work week of 48 hours in war industries...
...spare time Hudson put his machine to work planting 42 acres of tomatoes, which he guaranteed to buy at a fixed minimum price. The rest of the acreage he planted in corn, cantaloupes, etc., which he promised to buy at market prices. He spent some $9,500 for shipping baskets, wrapping paper, etc. while he and his wife were doing some of the planting. Then Hudson started traveling up & down the valley, spreading his idea, hired a crew to run his planter. Three weeks ago he quit the U.P., got ready for the critical first harvest...