Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minimum requirements for election to Phi Beta Kappa are, for graduating students, a total of 11 A's in 16 courses, and for Juniors a total of nine A's in 12 courses...
...restrictive for the U.S., which had 80% of the world's commercial air business before the war. But there should at least be an international body to set up technical flying standards (meteorology, landing-field and safety specifications, etc.). ¶ Government subsidies should be kept at a minimum and never used, as Berle put it, "to knock someone else...
Editorial comment was minimum and cautious. Most U.S. editors, mindful of the delicacy of U.S.-Soviet relations, of the gravity of the war, and of the 26-year-old difficulty in getting at the truth in any item dealing with Russia, did not want to stick out their necks...
Chuck Luckman attacked the problem at the source. He donated $25,000 to the National Association of Retail Druggists to help start the ball rolling on legislation to allow minimum-price-fixing by manufacturers. Result: the Miller-Tydings Fair Trade Act of 1937. He also spent 51 of his first 52 weeks with Pepsodent in traveling around the field persuading jobbers and retailers that Pepsodent really meant its promise of better, safer profit margins. In his first years with the company, gross profit before taxes slumped to $600,000. Last year...
...pressure of the public against the courtroom doors became so great by the end of the week that Judge Wallace decided to bar all except newspaper men (and a few newspaper women). Even the press expects to hear a minimum of juicy details. Said the New York Times's Meyer Berger: "Judge Wallace has restrained unnecessary journeys into the morals phase of the case...