Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prize. At highest estimates, Germany has a flow of oil from all available sources of 1,000,000 tons a month, with total reserves of 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 tons. The barest minimum requirement for the home front is 700,000 tons a month. The remainder, 300,000 tons or less, is not enough to wage large-scale, fast-moving, mechanized, offensive...
...Senate finally agreed with the House that minimum pay for servicemen should be $50 a month. The soldiers' pay bill went to the President. The law made the extra pay retroactive to June 1. With $50 a month, food & shelter, an enlisted man will be richer than many an average pre-war citizen...
...shortage, aggravated the long-standing demands of the Labor Party and other leftist groups for the nationalization* of coal. The Mineworkers' Federation urged that, at the very least, the industry be directed by a national control board (including Government, ownership and labor), empowered, among other things, to fix minimum wages. There was also agitation for coal rationing...
...will operate like a purge," by compelling the U.S. to abandon the idea of restricted production that created want in the midst of plenty during the days of depression. It will make capitalism work, and "after the war we will establish an economy of abundance with a minimum of government regulation and control...
...present time, an "insured Querum" method is used, on the theory that it will guarantee the presence of at least 65 men at each meeting. In recent years, the routine meetings have drawn few men over this absolute minimum. Only when there are special topics to be discussed, such as the Walsh-Sweezy tenure case, or the sweeping curricular changes due to wartime conditions, is there anything like a full attendance...