Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still hankered for the $2,000 annual average wage which some claimed was the adequate minimum living income for a family-although many economists held that if labor reached its $2,000 goal in this war boom it would get inflation rather than its money's worth...
...feels that its bonus scheme would answer post-war slump problems as well as strengthen army morale. By paying the trainees in non-transferable five year bonds the $20 differences between the $30 a month that draftees get after four months service and the $50 a month which the minimum wage law would guarantee them in private industry, the Administration could boost esprit de corps. Later on the army's pay system might be a good argument for slipping the same medicine to labor...
...departments of Chemistry and Engineering Sciences, which have no tutorial system, the minimum course requirements will remain, as before, at 16 courses. As a department with tutorial instruction, the Physics Department falls under the 15-course provisions of the new system...
...course. Not facts, no, but a certain savoir-faire that had served him in the best of stead in all the courses he had taken. He had picked up the knack of taking lecture notes and he had discovered that you could and should get away with a minimum of reading. He had learned how to tell what was the important part of a lecture or a chapter. The course had taught him how to get down to work and how to organize a disturbing disarray of dates and names in an orderly sequence. Perhaps most important...
...extravagant to be mentioned out loud yet, the idea was a sort of prepaid Bonus: to issue bonds to the boys in the training camps. Trainees now receive $30 a month after four months service. But the minimum-wage law puts a floor of around $50 a month under wages. If the trainees were put under the Wage-Hour Law (ignoring the cost of their room & board), all of them would qualify for a pay boost of $20 a month...