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Word: minimum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 20, 1948 | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lighting: Sub-Standard | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Over the Hump | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUERTO RICO: God's Pamphleteer | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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