Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...series of meetings is being conducted in Washington by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, NAM, CIO and AF of L "to explore ways and means by which management and labor can . . . arrive at a basis for joint action for the solution of their problems with a minimum of government intervention...
...audience confronted by innumerable flashing legs, four undistinguished tunes, and one Victor Mature, has every right to bolt for the exits, but "Footlight Serenade" is worth staying around for. Whether for reasons of budget or of taste the lavish spectacle element has been kept down to a merciful minimum, and though unpretentious, the picture is good...
...other symbols of pre-war preferences in gasolines may still swing in the wind, but the pumps under the signs are soon likely to squirt only one kind and color. Last week WPB empowered the Petroleum Coordinator to pool gasoline distribution, which will probably mean mixed brands and minimum standards, with only the "regular" grade available. Even this will not be so regular as before: octane ratings were cut to around 74 last February; henceforth, according to one industry guess, they will run about...
...York last week truant officers were rushing all over town picking up moppets who, instead of attending schools, were out hauling scrap. A minimum of ten pounds equaled a ball-game ticket. In Brooklyn last week 60,000 young scholars bought their way into Ebbets Field with 600 tons of scrap...
...from a commander of the German Luftwaffe came perhaps the most potent of all arguments for stepping up air assault on Germany in 1942. Discussing the problems posed for Germany by Allied air raids, the Russian campaign and Germany's minimum preparations for other Allied action in Europe, General Erich Quade said on Sept. 4: "Germany and the whole of the Greater Reich are the second front, but when we are finished in the East thousands of bombers will be freed for operations over Britain and other duties in the West...