Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Written by 35-year-old, Canadian-born Allan Kenward, an M.G.M. director of shorts, Cry Havoc has an all-female cast, tells of volunteer nurses huddled for weeks in a bomb shelter on Bataan. Its minimum of plot deals with the Fifth-Column finaglings of one of them. But Cry Havoc does not need much plot: it points a fierce picture of driving war, provides a grim drama of doomed women...
...state government, industries, schools, social agencies, and labor with an eye to making an easier road for youth. His labor record, though not astounding, has been good. The Bay State holds the nation-wide record among industrial states for the least amount of time lost in strikes. Minimum wages were established for 50,000 women and minors employed in restaurants, 150,000 women office workers, and teachers. Benefits under the Workman's Compensation were increased, the waiting period under the Employment Security legislation has been reduced from two weeks to one, and its coverage has been extended. Admittedly, Putnam...
Asked if students should make minimum use of their radiators and put a little more cold water in their baths, Morse replied, "I see no reason why they should...
...food exports to Latin America and the West Indies in 1939 totaled $50 million; now they are negligible. Argentina and Brazil are suffering because they cannot export crops, yet vast regions of the South American west coast and Panama, Trinidad, Puerto Rico are near starvation. Puerto Rico needs a minimum 110,000 tons of shipping a month to bring in supplies, is getting only 30,000 tons...
...Senate bill, approved unanimously by the Military Affairs Committee on Friday, differs only in minor aspects from the House version passed by an overwhelming 345 to 16 votes Saturday afternoon. Both will lower the minimum draft age from 20 to 18 to add some 1,500,000 teen age youths to the rapidly expanding army, which has set a goal...