Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--The War Manpower Commission, entrusted with the task of applying President Roosevelt's minimum 48-hour work week policy, tonight urged firms throughout the country to go on the longer week "if by doing so they can reduce their labor requirements and not have to discharge workers now on their payrolls...
...Although undesirable, playing politics has been regarded as a necessity under our present system. In wartime, however, the centralization of power in the executive is intended to eliminate the vices of our democracy. With the President wielding almost supreme power, he is able to cut partisan politics to a minimum...
...extent that there are areas of unemployment left, despite . . . efforts by business, government must and will step in to see that all people have opportunities for work and to establish such minimum standards of living that no member of the community suffers. . . . [Social security measures] are not inconsistent with the principle that hard work must be rewarded to encourage workers to do their best...
Powder That Pours. Standard's "cat cracker" improves on previous catalytic cracking. It functions with a minimum of moving parts (only pumps and blowers), manpower (eight men)-and without pause. In the past various catalysts*-usually porous, claylike materials-have been used to help break up the complex hydrocarbon compounds and recombine them into more usable form. Catalytic cracking, with various catalysts and conditions of use, can be controlled to a far greater degree than the older thermal cracking, in which reactions are produced by high temperatures and pressure. But coke (carbon) is by the nature of the reaction...
Water. As soon as possible after a ship is torpedoed, a lifeboat's or life raft's leader should count the survivors, compute the probable period before rescue and the prospects of rain, then ration the stock of water. The minimum daily ration should be 18 ounces until only one pint per man remains; after that each should be given two ounces daily. Lips can be moistened, the mouth rinsed with sea water, but "there is no doubt that large draughts of sea water cause death and even small amounts may prejudice a man's chance...