Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cripps. W. A. Domingo, a Negro labor leader, was released from the detention camp where he had been held without hearing for 18 months. Also out of jail was the rambunctious labor demagogue Alexander Bustamante. Governor Richards announced an expansion of public works to reduce unemployment, said that a minimum-wage law would be considered and an effort made to hold living costs at 60% above the 1939 level...
...this test was the extent and nature of the German target-a scattered conglomeration of cities, varying from the industrial concentrations of the Ruhr to the ports of Hamburg and Bremen, the naval bases of Kiel and Wilhelmshaven. The R.A.F. and the U.S. Air Forces have calculated the minimum damage necessary to bring a decision. This calculation is secret. Unofficially, the view of airmen is that one-third to one-half of Germany's industrial establishment must be destroyed...
...Japanese position was not enviable. The bulk of their strength, estimated at several divisions, was concentrated on the northern flank for a breakthrough, presumably against the western outlet of the Yangtze gorges. Now this concentration, outflanked, its rear threatened, would either have to achieve that break-through within a minimum of time, or retreat...
Listing the carrier's "minimum" accomplishments, the Navy said...
Solutions. The laundries want them selves designated as essential or "locally needed" industry so that their help can be frozen (this has already been done in 39 cities). They declare they can do the irreducible minimum of the nation's washing only if they abandon all frills and "de luxe" services for the duration...