Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National War Labor Board set a new minimum wage last week for U.S. industry. The minimum: 55? an hour. The Board jacked up the wage floor from 50? simply by issuing a new definition of "substandard" wages, the same method it used to authorize raises to 50,000 textile workers a fortnight...
These figures represent a reversal of the upward trend which first appeared last July, when 753 students, including 414 entering Freshmen, registered for the summer term. The wartime low was reached during the spring term in 1944, when the College enrollment sank to a minimum of approximately 600 civilians...
Meat for Caesar. Probably they would get no more satisfaction than did Minneapolis radio station KSTP, which succumbed last week to the uncompromising czar of American music, after fighting a rear-guard action against him for ten months. KSTP agreed to hire a minimum of eight musicians (at minimum wages of $52 apiece for a 22-hour week), which is more musicians than the station needs...
...began when the Minneapolis musicians' local opened negotiations for a new contract by insisting that KSTP hire a minimum of eight staff musicians, three record turners. The dispute went to the War Labor Board. While awaiting a decision, the station got a restraining order to forestall a strike threat. Petrillo met that by ordering a strike, which worked. The Minneapolis court issued a warrant for Petrillo's arrest, which did not work: he stayed out of Minneapolis...
...Nationale, No. 1 Resistance group and strongly socialist in outlook, put up notices, also addressed to women: "Sign our petition for more food!" MLN strategists thought they had a sure vote-catcher in the "more food" slogan. French daily rations-1,200 calories-were still gravely below the health minimum. Cried the Paris Combat: "On the food problem the Government has succeeded in rallying unanimity . . . against the Government." The Toulouse Patriote reported that housewives were saying, "We ate better when the Germans were here...