Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only businesses which will escape are industries with enormous capital invest ments and bad earnings records - meaning, above all, the railroads. Most of the carriers can multiply their profits before they reach the excess-profits minimum...
...question of defense, 40.3% wanted the arms program pushed full speed at any cost, taking precedence over business-as-usual. Another 50.3% wanted vigorous armament, but believed it could and should be attained with a minimum of disruption to normal domestic economy. Thus 90.6% favored a full defense program, disagreed only on how much it should be allowed to interfere with the normal economy...
...telephone for bail, and, fearing that a realization of the magnitude of their crimes might drive them to desperation, the careful warders removed ties, belts, and suspenders from their charges. This morning all forty offenders will face the majesty of the law in the Northampton police court. The minimum penalty for their dual offense of exceeding the legal speed limit and "obstructing operations" by riding four in the front seat will be a stiff $25 fine...
...Committee to Defend Defense. After he has spoken, both sides are free to question him, and the very fact that audiences and members are of every political color makes for tolerance and understanding. Extremism and the black-and-white world of the political slogan are reduced to a happy minimum. National as well as international issues nowadays are as involved as an Italian spaghetti and have to be elaborately unravelled before they can be understood. This function is admirably served by the Political Union, not only because it gives voice to all attitudes in fair and unemotional debate, but also...
...corps as a diplomatic effort to decrease the amount of daring American blood that now filters into Canada. Actually, however, besides being a scheme to enroll these men in home defense, it is a rare opportunity for young men whose mental ages are above the ten year old minimum set by the army...