Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concession in Ibn Saud's half of the neutral zone, California's independent Oilman J. Paul Getty offered a reported $9,000,000 down, a minimum royalty of $1,000,000 a year, a royalty of 55? a barrel, and a 25% interest in the company. This was so much more than any other company offered that oilmen were aghast. Furthermore, the world oil supply was already so ample that U.S. imports from the Middle East and Venezuela are being cut back. Last week there were signs that gasoline prices might soon be coming down. In view...
...Lady, Something for the Boys, because, as she puts it, "I can boff out those lines the way he wants them.") New singers know better than to risk trying out for Porter by singing his songs. He insists on at least 28 musicians in his show orchestras (the union minimum for Kate...
...outgrowth of the dissatisfaction which Japanese scientists have felt toward the stiffly hierarchical science bodies inherited from imperial Japan. In the early days of the occupation, Japanese scientists, hungry for outside news and without faith in themselves, came timidly to the American authorities to ask advice. They got the minimum. "Form a liaison group," said SCAP's scientific division, "so we can talk intelligently...
...only an altitude of about 400 feet, less than half the normal height for training jumps. But Hodgkiss sensed disaster, yelled: "Stand up, hook up, jump!" There was only time for Hodgkiss to see that all chutes were hooked to the static line. In seven seconds (half the usual minimum time) 36 men went out through the two doors. It was Hodgkiss' turn. He took a look. By this time the shuddering C82 was too low for him to get out. Sergeant Hodgkiss sat down and braced himself...
...eight colors on linen. Inside were reproductions, many in fine color, of 389 other photographs, paintings, etchings and woodcuts. They covered everything from Thomas Edison to the oil industry, from Yankee clippers to undergraduate life at Princeton. There were no ads, no "think pieces"; there was a bare minimum of text. Explained 30-year-old Editor Robert K. Heimann: "In thumbing through [other magazines] I've often found myself skipping-the solid reading matter . . ." What text there was in Heritage could be skipped also. Example: "A nation's heritage is its people-'the fellers...