Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smaller operators fretted about new rules by Actors' Equity, which will hold contracts with about 130 of the theaters. At least 70% of each cast must now belong to Equity, and thus qualify for its $50 minimum summer salary...
...Security Agency, warned Congress that the babies, grown to moppet's estate, were about to swamp the U.S. school system with 1,000,000 extra schoolkids a year: what the country direly needs, said Oscar Ewing, is some 30,000 extra classrooms. Ewing's estimate of the minimum needed for new school construction in the next ten years: between $8 billion and $10 billion...
...Church, which preaches the brotherhood of man, and the primacy of love, provides for priest and wife in their old age just about half the sum needed to maintain a minimum standard of life. It is conduct such as this, conduct bringing religion into disrepute, which in the age of Jesus was called the desecration of God's Name...
...With a minimum of whoopdedo, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis graduated it's first Negro. Conspicuous in the spread of crisp white uniforms at Dahlgren Hall, Ensign Wesley Anthony Brown, U.S.N., got his diploma, joyfully tossed his cap in the air with those of his 789 classmates. His mother, plump Mrs. Rosetta Brown, who had pressed pants to help him through high school, watched proudly from the galleries. Rear Admiral J. L. Holloway Jr., the Academy superintendent, greeted her at the June Week garden party. Brown...
...safety go, the new road would outclass the old system all the way. Engineers estimate that the 90 miles could be covered in 90 minutes if, as planned, the road were to run uninterrupted from border to border. Like the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut, the highway would have a minimum speed law. From the safety angle, speedways are many times less dangerous than winding roads. On the Maine link from Kittery to Portland, for instance, there has been only one fatality since December, 1947--a score of one death for 70 million vehicle miles...