Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China unencumbered with household goods, we can watch with a relaxed eye the pell-mell evacuation of Shanghai by those with loads of furniture and the ever present tung-hsi (things) that you collect out here. We have pared our operating essentials (clothes, household equipment, etc.) to a minimum and sent some of our things south against the possibility of looting in Shanghai should the city's fall become imminent. A neighboring correspondent and his wife, who plan to stay, got a new Ford automobile the other day as a gift from an evacuating Chinese family who couldn...
...good part of the interior lighting in the University fall incredibly below minimum standards. Many fixtures are antiquated, some are badly in need of repair. And there is not a single major classroom which even approaches the approved norms...
...World War II. Its producers made a sincere effort to mix the two elements. The combat footage was used as a core for the story, rather than dragged in as a touch of "realism." The all-male cast is given convincing all-male dialogue, and there is a painless minimum of comic relief. Above all, there is skillful exploitation of the fierce beauty of aerial battle photography...
...airlift terminals were socked in so tightly that operations were suspended for as long as nine hours at a time. But after the first month of Germany's rugged winter weather, the daily average of cargo hauled stood at 4,229 tons-only some 300 tons below minimum needs...
...chief tool for improvement is the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Co. Under the driving management of 38-year-old, Barcelona-born Teodoro ("Teddy") Moscoso Jr., PRIDC is plugging the island's advantages in openhanded tax concessions, cheap (as low as 15?-an-hour minimum) labor, and plentiful, government-owned electric power. Moscoso's salesmanship has already brought 42 new industries-ranging from rayon to radios-from the mainland. Since 1940, while the population has risen 12%, production has been upped 30%. New inquiries from mainland industries are pouring...