Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With a minimum of noise and a rather lower note than last year, the Classes of 1950, 1951, and 1952 yesterday elected their representatives to the Council...
...major defect in the present method, by which the government maintains a minimum price by loans or purchases, is that consumers often suffer by high prices. The Brannan plan continues government loans and purchases for storable goods, about 25 percent of total farm output, but changes the price-setting formula. Producers are satisfied with this method and want it retained...
...effort to modernize the basis for minimum support prices, the Brannan plan includes a new and highly-complicated formula. The present support price is a flat 90 percent of parity, parity taken as the 1909-1914 period. A new plan, scheduled to go into effect in 1950, will allow prices to vary between 60 and 90 percent of parity. The Brannan plan, however, will base support prices for each year on the average of the ten previous years...
...post-war inflation of costs has created a scholarship problem for the College. The minimum cost of going to Harvard College has increased about 50 per cent from about $1000 in 1940-41 to about $1500 or more now. Our scholarship money which comes from endowment has, of course, set increased anything like this amount...
...some pointers on dress. "Don't apply for a job in a sports jacket, sweater, T-shirt, or without a tie . . . Don't hit your prospective boss in the eye with a loud tie, or you'll distract his attention from what you are saying." The minimum wardrobe for a job holder: three medium-priced suits (never worn twice in succession), two pairs of shoes-and a hat. "College graduates frequently don't realize the importance of wearing hats'," said Haberdasher Eckmann, following the hatmakers' party line. "A hat is a mark of maturity...