Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...filibustered. No Senator had deliberately delayed the debate. The talk had been good, the argument largely honest and toward the point. There had been a minimum of fustian, of rabble-rousing, only one moment of phony melodrama-when Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler had displayed British-made toy lead soldiers, had asked the little Redcoats directly: "What are you doing here? What are you doing here?" (The toy soldiers kept a strict military silence...
Said Don Nelson truly last week: "It is uncertainty that bothers everybody. It always bothers me." In SPAB, there is still no shortage of uncertainty-particularly in statistics. To start allocation, SPAB must have good figures on supplies, inventories and minimum need for scarce materials. Head Statistician Stacy-May had divided the inventories job into three pieces, reported progress as follows...
...products" industry sections are to huddle with their industry representatives, develop a "requirements program" for each industry; 2) the "end-products" sections are then to discuss their needs with the OPM raw materials branches involved, scale them down if necessary, but arrive at some minimum figure; 3) OPM's Industrial Conservation Bureau is to advise on possible simplification, substitution etc.; 4) SPAB is to get the finished program, send it to Priorities for actual allocation of materials...
...needs without a battle. First big fight ahead will concern whether EDB can get a blanket approval, or will have to haggle over every item. If Colonel Lord wins that battle it will be a precedent for deals with the other 19 republics. His strongest arguments: 1) these are minimum needs, for which the Latin American countries are willing and eager to pay; 2) if they are not granted, in too many cases the war-straitened economies of these nations may collapse; 3) hemisphere solidarity is worth a few thousand tons of strategic goods, even if it takes U.S. belt...
Eduardo saw that she sat at table with such cinema bigshots as Winfield Sheehan (then head of Fox), Sol Wurtzel, et al.-but only for a respectable minimum of time. This caution earned him the jeering nickname "Mama Cansino." But his tantalizing strictness worked...