Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago, Minnesota's silo-sized Republican Governor Harold E. Stassen proposed a "world association of free peoples." It would require minimum standards of its members: religious freedom, fair internal justice, elective governments. Stassen suggested it could...
Those British mine workers who are paid by the amount of coal dug often cannot earn county minimum wages while working bad seams. With the war, thousands of Britain's 700,000 coal miners have left their noxious slums and dismal wages for better-paying defense jobs or the fighting services (the draft and volunteer rate has been 25,000 a year). Among those who remain, strikes have been constant, the Mineworkers' Federation (union) demanding a national minimum weekly wage of $17, an average increase...
...Where a certain minimum of civilian needs must be met," it read, "it may become advisable to concentrate [civilian production] ... in one or two plants and require all other manufacturing units in that industry to pool and exchange their machinery for ... maximum war production...
This week Congress will probably send to the President the Pay Bill, whose up-&-down fortunes soldiers & sailors have watched for eight months. By July Johnny's minimum monthly pay (now $21 to $30) will be $42, with 20% extra for overseas service, retroactive to Pearl Harbor. Minimum monthly pay for enlisted men of other nations...
...rapidly as possible shades are being installed and the night use of unshaded space is being held to a minimum...