Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...housing, food, transportation, medical care, other minimum necessities for a Regular Army of only 162,000 men and 13,395 officers cost the U. S. $270,500,000 in fiscal 1939. With conscription, by early 1941 the U. S. Army should have up to 375,000 men in its regular forces, some 217,000 in the mobilized National Guard, at least 400,000 draftees in training. At the increased rates, pay alone for these 992,000 men would run to $740,000,000 a year ($198,826,850 more than the Army's total appropriation...
...painted the picture of the years since 1933, when Labor gained "the untrammeled right, not privilege, to organize and to bargain collectively"; when laws established fair minimum wages, decent maximum hours, outlawed child labor, set up machinery for the mediation of labor disputes...
...scientific field of concentration is entirely suitable for students intending to enter the medical school," Dean C. Sidney Burwell states. Beyond the minimum requirements the student should be able to read French and German and have some knowledge of Embryology and Quantitative Analysis...
...Kapp used to spend a month on a recording trip. Now, with ten trunks full of recording equipment, he camps in a city hotel for ten days, and the musicians come from miles away to play for him. Bandsmen, who must join the musicians' union, get the standard minimum, $30 for three hours of recording. Soloists, who do not have to join the union, are paid from $10 to $50 a side, or earn royalties if their names...
...would by running low-capacity, inefficient machinery more of the time. Most estimates of the "waste" caused by idle capital equipment measure a capitalist economy with a socialist yardstick. To liberal-capitalist Theorist Rockefeller, the goal to strike for, under any form of government, is optimum production achieved at minimum cost...