Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adopted by the University, it would mean that the Federal Government would supply up to $80,000 to be used by Harvard in giving work to students. Jobs might range from work in laboratories paying a maximum of $.50 an hour to shoveling snow in emergency cases at a minimum wage of $.30 an hour...
...from 700,000 to 900,000 children under the age of sixteen were gainfully employed in America's fields, factories and streets. This figure does not include "children working at home, merely on general household work, on chores or at odd times in other work." It does include a minimum of 400,000 children who are still working either part or full time and are not affected by the Wage and Hours Act prohibitions of child labor in interstate commerce industry alone. It does include an army of children who never get the minimum fair opportunity of a decent grammar...
...Western Union" is an all-round admirable job, what with fine direction, a surprising minimum of Hollywood cliches, and the best technicolor to date. Perhaps February is somewhat early for predictions, but you'll be betting on a sure thing if you spot the picture as one of the ten best...
WASHINGTON--The Supreme Court today unanimously upheld constitutionality of the Wages and Hours Law, key New Deal reform which established minimum wages and maximum hours for millions of American workers...
Under the old rule the Princeton lads not only couldn't get squiffed but couldn't even keep a bottle of sherry in their rooms without being theoretically liable for punishment. There has been a minimum of effort to enforce the ruling, however, and the new law is designed to allow a wider and more suitable enforcement...