Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contract set up a wage scale providing minimum wages and hours for 27 classes of dining hall employees, ranging from the vegetable cooks to the glass and silver polishers. The basic minimum wage for waitresses is $14 for the first year of service, with a graded increase until it reaches $16 at the end of four successive years of employment...
Hangar flying and hearth-side barrel rolls are going to take a back seat this year as the club swings into action with the purchase of a new club-owned plane and the engagement of a special flying instructor to furnish lessons at a minimum cost through the facilities of the club...
...still a national embarrassment, but a fainter one. The British Embassy carefully pointed out that the Embassy dinner for the Windsors would be "medium-sized and private." The White House took this cue: the Duke and Duchess were invited only to a lunch with the President-almost the minimum courtesy permissible by diplomatic protocol. When the death of the President's brother-in-law, G. Hall Roosevelt (see p. 17), made it necessary to cancel even this courtesy, a Presidential handshake was substituted. Their only formal Washington appearances were at receptions by the press clubs...
...That afternoon he and the Duchess, after two stiff little luncheons, one stuffy little dinner in the refrigerated privacy of the British Embassy, entrained for Chicago and for Calgary, Alberta, for the Edward Prince Ranch at High River, in the grand loneliness and peace of the Rocky Mountains. The minimum of officialdom saw them to the station...
...inches); 2) to lessen skid danger, braking pressure is now distributed not evenly but 60% to the front wheels, 40% to the rear; 3) the exhaust system has been "streamlined." The Ford front end has been redesigned around a small, rectangular grille, and gingerbread held to a pleasing minimum...