Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week the wost was yet to come. Before the Wage and Hour Division of the Labor Department was a proposal to raise minimum wages from 30? to 40? an hour on newspapers with circulations greater than 3,000, and on newspapers with smaller circulations if they are in interstate commerce (which most weeklies are, for they print such things as letterheads and envelopes to be sold across state lines). The proposal is virtually certain of approval, probably before Jan. 1. If it is approved, to many a surviving war-harried U.S. weekly swift sure death will come...
Seven enemy planes shot down is a good bag in any flyer's war (five is the minimum for designation as an ace), but Jap planes were being knocked off so rapidly by the U.S. Air Forces in the Solomons that until this week neither the Army the Navy nor his own Marine Corps knew exactly whether Captain Joe Foss had tallied 22 or 29 of the 450-plus destroyed around Guadalcanal. This week at Pearl Harbor Admiral Nimitz fixed Foss' score at 22 (in six weeks' flying), which made him officially top man among U.S. combat...
...State (TIME, Dec. 7). But contrary to general pre-publication expectation there was not a revolutionary idea in the whole report. What Sir William proposed, in the words of Britain's steady, influential weekly The Economist, was "a plan for the security of incomes up to a minimum level . . . based upon existing schemes and existing methods...
...momentous document which should and must exercise a profound and immediate in fluence on the direction of social change in Britain." Other comments: Telegraph: "The consummation of the revolution begun by Mr. Lloyd George in 1911. . . . Perhaps the one really basic innovation ... is the establishment of a national minimum level of subsistence." Manchester Guardian: "A big and fine thing." Daily Worker: "A courageous attempt ... to alleviate some of the worst evils of present-day society. . . . The main principles . . . will be endorsed by all progressive opinion." The man in the street: "A bit of all right." The Plan. The Beveridge plan...
...passenger-rate increases granted last spring. In Chicago this week the five operating Brotherhoods (trainmen, engineers, etc.) are expected to ask for a 10-15% increase in wages. The 15 non-operating Brotherhoods (signalmen, track workers, etc.) have already demanded a wage boost of 20? an hour, minimum pay 70? an hour. The proposed reduction in rates based on current traffic would reduce the railroads' gross income by $500 million per year; the wage increases, if granted in full, would add some $600 million to their payrolls in 1943. These two actions would wipe out all railroad profits...