Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wall Street Journal last week showed that out of every $1 by which these companies increase their profits over 1939, 72? will go for taxes. Not so the railroads. With enormous structures of "invested capital," on which the return for most is nowhere near the law's minimum 8%, they offered their common stockholders one of the longest rides in the park. Signs, good...
...year ago Alla Nazimova decided Scriptwriter Arch Oboler was a genius, requested him to write a radio play for her. Pleased that Nazimova shared a conviction that he himself had held for years, Oboler turned out an opus called The Ivory Tower, in which, for the union minimum of $21, Nazimova made her first appearance on the air. This week Oboler will present another famed actress in her radio debut. She is Elisabeth Bergner, who will run through Oboler's latest radio work, An American is Born...
...American, Jim Marshall is a better Brazilian than many natives. Of his 1,000 employes, only six are Americans; most are youthful (16 to 20), nattily uniformed girls. Unlike many merchants, Jim welcomed Brazil's recent 240 milreis ($12.36) monthly minimum wage laws because he knows Brazil-and especially Lojas-needs larger public purchasing power. Originally, 90% of his wares came from the U. S. or Europe. But Lojas financed many a backroom Brazilian factory; now 75% of its goods are homegrown, and many a Lojas-squired factory now sells all over Brazil. Some of them have even begun...
...assembly line were 20 more that would have been finished by week's end. To Downey rushed War Department, National Defense Commission and Labor Department officials to confer with C. I. O. men and Vultee officials about the union's basic demand: an increase in minimum wages from 50? to 75? an hour. Meanwhile, Army pilots from Moffett Field went through the picket line without interference to fly away the 17 completed planes. But the factory stood idle. One minor division of the defense program was stalled...
Because the new plan is in the experimental stage the maximum number of Freshmen permitted to enroll has been set at 80, and, likewise, because of the administration difficulties involved, a minimum of 15 has been established