Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate Banking Committee last week approved a bill to lower the minimum gold backing of Federal Reserve notes from 40% to 25%, the backing of Reserve deposits from 35% to 25%. Then the bill went to the Senate...
...state has the right," President Johnson continued, "to call men out of their civilian lives to an existence of privations and minimum pay without assuming the obligation to provide a reasonable hope of security equally to all its veterans. Negro, Catholic, and Jewish minorities will ask for job opportunities unmarred by discrimination...
...become the military's conscience pricker of the Home Front. In any decision on reconversion, General Clay will probably be on the side of such Cromwellians as Under Secretary of War Bob Patterson and Lieut. General Somervell. They want a tough, all-out war against Japan with a minimum of reconversion. Last week theirs were the voices WPB had to hear as it prepared for the fearsome job of refitting the U.S. production machine for the knockout blow against Japan. That blow would not be delivered in one swift assault; it might be many long months before...
...short, said Mr. Kaiser, prospective buyers should be required to guarantee a minimum number of postwar jobs, be responsible for the operating capital. But the plants should not be sold as soon as they are no longer needed for war; they should be leased first, with an option to buy, after the employment guarantees had been made good...
...doubted that more blood would be spilled before Brazil's millions chose a legal president in the elections which now seemed assured by September. That the blood might be held to a minimum, President Vargas installed Strongman João Alberto Lins de Barros as Chief of Police...