Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publicized last week was another Newspaper Guild victory-the signing of a first contract with the Communist Daily Worker. As slow to sign as the bourgeois capitalistic Times, neither did the Daily Worker set a new record for Guild wage scales. It contracted to pay its editorial comrades a minimum of $25 a week...
...England, more air-raid conscious than other parts of the country, felt more secure last week. With a minimum of red fire, the U.S. Navy commissioned the mightiest fortress in New England's once thin aerial defenses. At Quonset Point, R.I., on the western shore of Narragansett Bay, Commander Andrew C. McFall listened to a few speeches, then took com mand of the Navy's newest and one of its largest air stations. The colors were hoisted, the watch set, and Quonset Point buckled down to work...
...character that reflects the personalities of Commanding Officer Captain Charles P. Mason and the officers of his staff. At older Pensacola, one of the Navy's other air training stations, cadet life is stricter and discipline more sternly professional. At Jax, military formalities are reduced to a minimum, and habits are more casual, friendlier. The thermostat for this temperature is Lieut. Commander Roger Cutler, a tall, ruddy Bostonian, who left the textile business to take command of the Cadet Regiment. Known out of his earshot as Rodge, Cutler goes at his duties with the directness of a businessman, impatiently...
...Refrigerators (75% sold on credit) should be sold for minimum terms of 20% down, 16 months to pay, instead of the present average of 5 to 10% down, 36 to 60 months...
...rdenas regime, when the workers took over about one-third of Mexico's rayon industry. The count eluded them by employing 16-to-18-year-old, soft-fingered (best for rayon working) girls and paying them six pesos a day (2½ pesos is the minimum wage). Mexican working girls, even though unmarried, take advantage of their right to a 40-day maternity leave with pay each year, followed by two half-hour baby-feeding periods daily...