Word: minimum
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...Atlantic, the Prime Minister declared: "The United States patrol . . . takes a considerable part of the Atlantic in a certain degree off our hands, but we need a good deal more help. I expect we shall get a good deal more help in many ways. . . . We can probably maintain our minimum essential traffic during 1941. . . . As for 1942, we must look to an immense construction of merchant ships in the United States. . . . It may be that 1943, if we have to endure it as a year of war, will present easier problems...
...union asked that monthly wages be increased from $38 to $45, a sum still below the minimum of the Fair Labor Standards Act. But Mr. Eichenlaub replied that the hospital was short of funds. Climax of the strike came when he tried to obtain an injunction against picketing. The municipal judge to whom the case was referred lay sick in bed in the struck hospital. Judge Frank Plunkett Patterson substituted for him, issued an order which Pittsburgh papers called "the most drastic picketing injunction of modern times...
...wartime there can be no such thing as competition. There is more business than all the industry of the country can handle. Competitors must cooperate with each other to meet even minimum Government demands. The Government, not the price, controls demand. The old Law of Supply & Demand is given a holiday...
...duration profits are in a race with taxes; President Roosevelt said that $3,500,000,000 in new taxes this year "represents the minimum of our revenue requirements...
Acknowledging the hole nylon has made in U.S. silk consumption, Japan last week cut its 1941 silk production quota 20% under 1940, hoped to keep the price well above the current $2.38-a-lb., Government-fixed minimum. This year Du Pont plans to produce 8,000,000 Ib. of nylon at its Seaford, Del. plant, enough to take over 17% to 20% of the U.S. hosiery trade, make a third 'of a million pairs of stockings a day. Late this year, Du Font's new plant at Martinsville, Va. will double this output, drive still harder against Japan...