Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike threat against the Government, or at least against its present Administration, was precisely what Alexander Whitney and the railroad unioneers wanted. Ten months ago, mindful that many war-plant workers were making more money than the highly skilled railroad men, the five unions had asked for a minimum $3-a-day wage increase. A special Government Railroad Labor panel, considering the case from every angle, after an interminable length of time gave them 4? an hour-32? a day-instead. Economic Stabilizer Fred M. Vinson hurriedly approved the raise. But the unions cried "Insult," turned the proposal down...
...Reserve Bulletin answered last week: in July all U.S. businesses had the enormous mass of $39,000,000,000 tucked away in demand deposits. Said the Bulletin: "Business in the aggregate may be approaching a position where its reconversion and immediate postwar-expansion needs can be financed with a minimum of reliance on bank loans and other external financing. . . . But. . . many individual firms or even entire groups may still [be] short of funds...
...consulate had been established at Urumchi in March; in September a British consul arrived. Traffic in Urumchi this fall was back again on the left side of the road, as in Central China. Thus peacefully, with the minimum possible friction, China once again moved up to the great frontiers of her past history...
...Propeller Club speaker who broke with established custom was Henry J. Kaiser. Miracleman Kaiser's plans for the future shocked some shipowners: he spoke for the operation of U.S. merchant ships without subsidies. Said he bluntly: "Subsidies create depressions." The Kaiser method: cut costs by paying crews a minimum wage, but giving each seaman a share in the profits earned by the ships they serve on. Said Kaiser, serving notice on the shipowner audience that the Kaiser empire may start its own shipping company: ". . . Whether it be labeled 'publicity' or not ... it will be my personal endeavor...
...stuck request No. 6: "To open immediately ... the doors of Palestine, the Holy Land of our forefathers which was given to Israel for eternal heritage by the Lord, blessed be His name, with oath and covenant." The Vice President, his voice low, squirmed through a diplomatically minimum answer and the rabbis took trolley cars to the Lincoln Memorial. Across the Mall rolled the Star-Spangled Banner, chanted in the strange, almost sobbing intonation of Hebrew. Then the rabbis faded out of sight and out of mind...