Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because human nature is inevitably low, says Ruml, the Federal Government must protect the public from business excesses, by exercising certain minimum controls. In turn, business can do much to head off further regulation by increasing the freedom of those it governs-stockholders, employes, customers and consumers. He suggests one way: give each of them a director-trustee to represent their interests on the boards of directors which run business, thus a voice in management...
Rundstedt set up his attack like a chessmaster. Good guesswork or good forecasting told him the Rhine Valley would be covered with weather the first two weeks of December. Under such a blanket he moved divisions with a minimum chance of Allied air observation. His G-2 never functioned better...
...Last Step. A few months ago, a third citizen group did. With a minimum of fuss, it turned up with $14,421,000 and bought control of Nebraska Power. This group will hold control only until the property can be transferred to Omaha or a public-power district. Omaha wondered: "Where'd they get the money...
...National War Labor Board last week mulled over a new minimum wage rate for the U.S. Public members tentatively suggested a new floor of 55? an hour (up from 50?) to correct substandard wage rates in the textile industry. Few were satisfied with this proposal. Industry members of WLB opposed the increase. Labor members offered their own minimum of 72? an hour. And the Textile Workers Union (C.I.O.), which originally asked for the raise, insisted that a 71? raise is needed to bring textile wages more in line with those in other industries...
With a majority of WLB apparently agreed that some raise is necessary, it looked as if the U.S. would get a new definition of substandard wages: i.e., that workers paid less than this minimum could be raised without WLB approval...