Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Supply functioned without a major hitch. Motorcycle dispatch riders, powdered with dust that turned their blue denim white, clattered into well-hidden command posts with battle messages that got prompt handling. In forward areas, tireless doughboys, in superb physical condition, moved forward, retired, swung down the roadsides with a minimum of stragglers...
...Brazil, which gets 58.49% of the U.S. quota, surplus coffee is still being systematically burned (54,000 bags last month). Yet Brazil's standard grade, Santos No. 4, has nearly doubled in price since last August. Colombia (19.8% of the quota), producing valuable special grades, raised its minimum prices nine times last winter. Brazilian growers and speculators, with 2,300,000 bags of quota coffee still to ship, are holding it back, waiting for still higher prices. Meanwhile shipping space is getting scarce and ocean freight costs are mounting. Brazil is also toying with the idea of setting...
Planes. Weeks of wrangling over demands for higher wages at North American (strikers at Vultee had boosted a 50? minimum to 62½?) had got nowhere. A strike was brewing when the case was handed to the National Defense Mediation Board, which summoned management and union leaders to Washington. The C.I.O. union agreed not to strike during negotiations. Management promised to make any settlement retroactive to May i. But in the middle of negotiations, William P. Goodman, local union spokesman, bawled that the company was "stalling," and the Inglewood local walked out. Work on some $200,000,000 worth...
Dean Hanford stated: "As minimum requirements for carrying out the Student Council recommendation, the Masters have agreed that (1) every student who expects to entertain ladies in his room shall sign a statement to that effect on a special card or book when the guests arrive or some time earlier in the day and (2) that a student who has signified his intention to entertain ladies in his room shall certify their departure by signing a statement to that effect before the expiration of the period for entertaining ladies on that...
...effort to bring a quick settlement to the strike. The President seems determined to us his newly won emergency powers of force to restore production. If so, he might better bring his influence to bear on N. A. A.'s prosperous owners to concede the seventy-five cent minimum wage asked by the Union than order his Army to squash the picket line. Such a move would be less liable to the cries of "Communism" which would arise on every hand than is the present proposal to charges of Fascism...