Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reduce its consumption of dammed waters, saving them for dry or windless spells. Engineers' big problem, in fact, was to outwit too much wind: a sudden gale could raise the turbine's output in three seconds from 1,000 to 3,000 kilowatts, overloading an unbraked generator. Minimum needed wind speed is 18 m.p.h., and 30 m.p.h. is ideal...
Tall, buxom, St. Louis-born Helen Traubel has one of the finest U.S. heavyweight voices. She would have been ready for her big chance this season, had she known that the Met would need her. But Traubel made 50 concert dates, at $2,000 minimum each, and last week her concerts were 95% sold out in advance. She is contracted to the Met for only half the season...
Besides getting such talent as Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Bob Hope, Bette Davis, Tyrone Power, Claudette Colbert all for a minimum fee of $35 (required by the rules of the American Federation of Radio Artists), and having as its theme song Any Bonds Today? by the indefatigably patriotic Irving Berlin, the show has the advantage of costing the Treasury nothing. Its time, music, actors are paid for by Texas Corp., which is due to shell out some $195,000 before the program vacates CBS. On NBC, Bendix Aviation Corp. will put up the money...
...expressing our opinions to the public. My outfit, in particular, is located on a sandspit way out in Boston Harbor, appropriately called by an inspecting general, "one of the worst posts in the U.S. Army." Boats to the mainland are bad and athletic activities are at a minimum. Entertainment consists of old movies three times a week and a WPA show, which though appreciated is corny. No big time such as is enjoyed by members of large Army posts. Passes off the island every ten days is an improvement over every...
Designed both to curb inflation now and to cushion deflation in the post-war period, the order gave the Federal Reserve Board power to set minimum down payments and maximum repayment periods -for finance companies and retail stores as well as banks, for personal loans as well as for installment sales. Exempted were only business and agricultural loans, time purchases of homes...