Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...controls having been clamped on, all parties at once took great pains to make it politely clear that export control did not mean embargo. Full stoppage of trade, tsk-tsk'd Mr. Sayre unctuously, was not intended. He wanted "a minimum of dislocation" of normal business. The Japanese, no fools, had anticipated plenty of "dislocation"; in April and May they had bought everything in the Philippines that wasn't nailed down, including $353,600 worth of iron ore. They knew that licensing meant slow strangulation: the application of licensing to U.S.-Japanese trade had brought exports to Japan...
Boasting more complete coverage than any of its predecessors the book brings every sport, except crew up to its Yale meet. Copy and statistics have been cut to a minimum to insure more candid shots of the teams and clubs in action. "Every activity and organizations has been covered and photographed," said Atherton...
...probable minimum, the Army would have to support the Navy with an armored division, a motorized infantry division, land planes to put on the five airports near Dakar. Enormous problems of transocean supply (when the U.S. and Britain are already short of sea transport) would immediately develop. The Navy remembers what happened to General Charles de Gaulle and the British when they approached Dakar with an insufficient force. And Dakar's defenses-even without probable German reinforcements-are stronger today than they were last fall...
Last week's anniversary celebration was a national symposium at Kansas City on "The Good Life in an Industrial Era." Sponsor and chairman was able, energetic, pro-labor Bishop Edwin Vincent O'Hara, who as a young priest in Oregon helped draft the U.S.'s first minimum-wage law and became the defendant in Stettler v. O'Hara when the law was tested and upheld in the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1931 he was the only American bishop present when Pius XI delivered Quadragesimo Anno, and spoke for the U.S. as delegates from each Christian nation...
Gold & silver, banknotes, securities and precious stones can now fly on U.S. planes all the way from San Francisco to Singapore for $2.38 a pound v. 14? for parcel post. Passengers can make the trip (semimonthly flights alternate with the trip to Hong Kong) for $825 ($485 minimum by steamer). But the new 1,500-mile Manila-Singapore hop is not likely to be self-supporting for some time. In Manila everyone regards it as an extension of the U.S. diplomatic arm-right to the heart of Britain's Far Eastern trouble zone...