Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coal situation now is very much better than in 1918, when fuel rationing was so acute that steam had to be turned off in he buildings at 9 o'clock in the evening, and the use of artificial light was cut to a minimum...
...British formula of 1940 held that a minimum of inflation follows a war finance program of one-half taxes, one-half loans. Britain soon fell behind this goal; so did the U.S. (see chart). For the fiscal year ending next June 1943, budgeted defense expenditures tot up to $56 billions, all expenditures to $59 billions. Even after the proposed $8 billions in new taxes, annual revenues in sight are $26 billions. More than half, therefore, must be borrowed...
Neither department has made any change in its concentration requirements beyond the University wide acceleration. The Government department beads cited their low minimum prerequisite of four courses in the field and the absence of a Junior Divisional as making any alterations unnecessary...
...chronic allergy to roses, "a human law-book" with about as much passion as the statues she carves for a hobby. Eventually, Her Honor is thawed out by the persevering attentions of Walter Pidgeon, who performs the sequence of boy meeting, losing and regaining girl with a minimum of hamming and a maximum of savior faire...
Joan of Paris (RKO-Radio) is a U.S. coming-out party for an attractive pair of European refugees: France's green-eyed Michele Morgan and Austria's Paul Henreid. Both make graceful bows. Mile. Morgan is an arresting personality, whose role calls for only a minimum of acting...