Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edward Jones is a blond-haired native of Liverpool who ran away from home when he was 16. He wandered about Liverpool and Plymouth until he had passed the minimum age requirement to join the Marines and just after his 18th birthday signed up in his Majesty's service. After a time in barracks he was stationed aboard the "Newcastle" after the outbreak of war and has remained there ever since...
...Lease by using it to maintain their foreign trade. An agreement was negotiated by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant. The agreement was published as a White Paper, in which the British promised to limit their export business during World War II to the minimum necessary to continue the war effort...
Nelson's survey will be designed to answer two questions which-though elementary-have never been answered before: 1) What does the U.S. have to produce to defend itself, to aid Britain, China, Russia and Latin America, and to satisfy its own minimum civilian needs at the same time? 2) How much does this represent in terms of raw materials, machinery, man power...
...Meadville as auto plants to Detroit. Talon's payroll for the first six months this year was $4,008,085-at the rate of about $1,500 a year for every one of Meadville's families. Its union contract (A.F. of L.) provides a 50?an-hour minimum for beginners; its women employes averaged $29.40 a week last year. Many a western Pennsylvania schoolteacher has become a Talon factory hand because it pays better. Talon employes have always been good for a bank loan; about two-thirds of them have mortgages on homes or automobiles...
...methods never provided. Donald Nelson, who will run priorities for SPAB, believes that it is as important morale-wise to keep civilian supplies and factories going (at least in part) as it is to get guns built. At week's end SPAB played with the idea of determining minimum requirements of consumer industries first, allotting the remainder to Army, Navy and Lend-Lease-just the opposite of the present system. At the very least, SPAB expects to get the facts about available supplies. It will then be able to tell every U.S. industry in advance how much material...