Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transcontinental Flight 6, eastbound from Kansas City, was over the Missouri River just west of Lambert-St. Louis Field. A few minutes before, the airport radio had given veteran Pilot P. T. W. Scott the St. Louis weather. The ceiling was down to the bare CAA minimum: 400 feet. There were scattered clouds at 200, visibility was two miles. Wind: north northeast 6 (miles an hour). With eleven passengers behind in berths and seats, Captain Scott and his co-pilot had a job on their hands that has long since ceased to worry good airmen: an instrument landing...
...Everybody," snapped the Minister. "There will be no exception because of rank. We shall have to call into service men and women who in normal circumstances would not take employment. . . . Inefficient management will have to be replaced. ... A minimum of work hours must be prescribed...
...reporters: "When you jump off a monument, the sensation is fine as long as you keep going" (Representative Richard Wigglesworth, Massachusetts); "The deficit . . . threatens the solvency of the U. S. The President still believes in spending Government money as if it were water" (Senator Robert Taft, Ohio); "... A minimum of what we ought to do . . ." (Senator Alben Barkley, Kentucky); "My digestion is not good enough to take it down at one gulp" (Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Michigan); "I'm for adequate national defense, if it takes our shirt" (Senator Tom Connally, Texas); "... a trick budget . . . juggling of figures . . . what...
...were employes of the struck Babcock & Wilcox Co. plant, which has an $18,000,000 backlog of orders for marine boilers and other equipment for the U. S. Navy. Union demands, which union members assert the management refused to discuss, were for an 8? boost in the minimum wage of 57? an hour, a 10? hourly increase for all other workers, bonuses for workers on the night shifts...
...First, some one professor should be made responsible for re-organizing the elementary courses. Math A and Math 2 should adopt more modern texts better organized for what Harvard intends to teach and for the way Harvard intends to teach it. Different sections could be required to do a minimum amount of identical work in that text; and giving the same exam to the whole course would be pressure enough on the instructors to enforce the rule. An advanced section in Math 2 could take care of concentrators who required or preferred a little thicker broth than those heading...