Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your writer of captions for letters reminds me of that guy. He carries "Curt, clear, complete" to its irreducible minimum...
...granted by WLB during an earlier delaying action, actually gave John L. more than he had asked for-a point mainly overlooked by the press. He had demanded a weekly wage of $57.50; under the new and complicated contract, a miner working a full week will get a minimum of $58.87. John L. Lewis purred that it was a "satisfactory wage agreement...
Wage Floor. The implications of a worldwide minimum wage are enormous. Its proposal by a member of an Empire Government, even in unofficial capacity, is arresting. Was he thinking of China? India? the Malay States? Or was he groping for some Archimedean machine to pull Britain, the U.S., Russia into line on a world trade basis? Morrison said only that his purpose was to eliminate "that worst of all forms of competition, which is based on the abject poverty and misery of the workers in socially backward countries...
...German demolition and mining had reached a new peak of thoroughness. Communications behind the enemy front, left usable by Allied air attack, were being systematically destroyed. A report from Allied headquarters noted that the Nazis in the east had blown up 13 roads and rail bridges, leaving a minimum passage for retreat, along the Adriatic coast to Pescara, 40 miles ahead of the Eighth Army...
...competition will run for a minimum of six weeks, after which the outstanding men will be elected. Candidates will be required to bring in assigned news stories and features. The territory is unlimited, but it will probably range around the grounds of the College, affording an unprecedented opportunity to visit University Hall on something more than ominous duty...