Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terrible-tempered ruler, Secretary Harold L. Ickes, bolts about switching off lights to save electricity. The gesture is noble in purpose, and-to those who appreciate the endless, grab-bag complexity of Interior's duties-understandable. Interior sells electricity, protects the Indians, manages forests, preserves historic buildings, sets minimum soft-coal prices, interferes in the government of Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, rules Western cattle ranges, settles irrigated areas in semi-arid regions, watches over wild life and fish. All these sprawling activities are linked by a central theme: conservation of natural resources...
...Composer Blitz stein's jittery tunes occasionally develop into muscular near-melodies, are theatrically effective in the last ten minutes of the opera. For the most part they are sung, and sometimes talked, by people who were hired as actors rather than as singers. The production has a minimum of props and no scenery. No For An Answer, presented by a committee that includes several Communist fellow travelers, is scheduled for two more Sunday night performances. Marc Blitzstein would be glad if some Broadway producer would then take over...
...gross for its music. Equally firm was Mr. Buck that ASCAP would not agree to a per-program arrangement dictated by B. M. I. Whatever happens B. M. I. will have to watch its step. One flourish on a horn of an ASCAP copyrighted tune may mean a minimum penalty of $250 for every station that broadcasts...
...lumber business has boomed. A. F. of L. unions have demanded higher wages. While A. F. of L. picketed a big Weyerhaeuser mill in Everett, demanding 7½? more than the present minimum 62½? an hour, the C. I. O. union stepped in, signed a contract gaining only 2½? an hour increase. This situation demonstrated, for anybody to see, the need for labor unity...
...three Soler brothers (Fernando, Domingo and Julian), Joaquín Pardave, "Caninflas" (Mario Moreno) consider themselves well-paid at $2,000 a picture. When a producer is ready to shoot he can hire a complete crew from the CTM union on a contract calling for 50% of the minimum union salaries to be paid during production, the remainder after distribution. In addition, the crew gets 33% of the net profits. The films almost bank themselves...