Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brightest prospect for the future is the fact that three days remain this week for the members of the Houses to fill their quotas. The War Service Committee, however, had hoped for a minimum weekly goal of $1000, $845 more than has so far been promised...
Under the impetus of the new pledge drive by the War Service Committee the Harvard undergraduate goal has been set at a minimum of $1000 each week. Other colleges such as Yale, with comparable enrollments and student allowances, have consistently topped that sum and are continuing to do so. But even these standards are startlingly modest when balanced against the contributions of the millions of wage-earning "ten percenters...
...full-dress patriotic campaign to keep farmers from'planting even the legal acreage of wheat was launched last week by Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard. He was too tactful to say that war has turned the 55,000,000-acre minimum allotment fixed by law into a white elephant (TIME, June 22), but what he did say was nonetheless plain English...
...weekly meeting of WPB's strategic Requirements Committee is a solemn but frequently fantastic scene: one admiral (Navy), one lieutenant colonel (Maritime Commission), one general, at least one bigwig apiece from State, BEW, Lend-Lease and WPB's Civilian Supply section meet to battle over the absolutely minimum material needs of each absolutely essential division...
...them really knows: 1) how much of what materials there is to be fought over, 2) how much their own suppliers' really minimum needs are, 3) what really happens to their allotments once they are fed to the factories. Ever since war production began in a big way, every contractor has been so anxious to be well-heeled with materials (and so sure of being shortchanged) that he has been inclined to ask for more than he needed at any one moment. There is no reason to believe Purp can stop this overestimating, since contractors can always alibi later...