Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mail pouches, about every other day, and once when Prime Minister Curtin of Australia, President Picado of Costa Rica, their wives and Mrs. Roosevelt flew in for lunch and the afternoon. Lieut. Commander Franklin Roosevelt Jr. dropped by for dinner one evening. The President kept paper work to a minimum, but even so had to sign a lot of papers-including commissions for notaries public in the District of Columbia...
...ever had, had given the U.S. new airfields 500 miles closer to the enemy's inner positions. From the three big airdromes at Hollandia (on which U.S. engineers worked this week), U.S. long-range bombers can now reach the southern tip of the Philippines (although with minimum loads), can also bite heavily into the Jap chain from the onetime Dutch naval base at Amboina, up through the Pacific arc to Guam...
TIME continues to be the one and only reliable source of news on world events that seems to find a way to get delivered to us in a minimum of time...
...boost in state unemployment benefits, with the extra cost to be paid for by the Government. To make this workable, Congress would have to pass a "federal demobilization law." This would: 1) scale benefits according to previous earnings, with an additional allowance for dependents; 2) cut to a minimum the present period of waiting for the money; 3) eliminate restrictions on the length of time such benefits are now payable. Such a system, he said, might be instituted after the collapse of Germany. He claimed such a law would give "private enterprise the assurance that its efforts to expand after...
...last paragraph, concerned with minimum requirements for election to the Undergraduate Chapter, had no foundation in fact. Election to Phi Beta Kappa is governed by a candidate's total record rather than course grades alone. There are no specific minimum requirements, and the only limitation is concerned with the maximum percentage eligible for membership in any graduating group...