Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begin operations, the mill need anywhere from 150,000,000 to 215,000,000 dollars. One rumor from Washington stated that the Reconstruction Finance Corporation had offered the minimum figure as a start to any company desiring to begin construction. But, the New England Council Committee has said that it would rather see private than RFC financing; as an initial gesture, the Council has formed a "New England Steel Mill Organizing Corporation" with a capital of $300,000 to promote private investment in the plant. The Council, too, has emphasized strongly that it would not care to have...
...hour-into the insurance half of the fund, with Bethlehem chipping in another 2½? an hour for each worker. But the company would have to pay by itself the cost of a liberal pension plan, guaranteeing all 65-year-old steelworkers with 25 years of service minimum retirement pensions of $100 a month. Some would get more. This, Murray estimated, would cost Bethlehem 10? or 12½? an hour for each of its 80,000 steelworkers. In turn, the steelworkers were abandoning fourth-round wage demands for another year...
...student. At this point, Mama's work begins; she cuts and sews the uppers to the required size. The selection and cutting of the upper is a difficult process, since all leather will stretch in one direction. The problem is to select a piece of leather with the minimum of stretch, and then cut it so that the stretching will be in the least detrimental direction...
...national minimum wage was raised from 40? to 75? an hour last week. The bill signed into law by the President will give an estimated 1,500,000 workers a raise of around $300 million a year. Harry Truman called it "a major victory in our fight to promote the general welfare," and said it "should result in the virtual elimination of the evil of child labor...
Among the union leaders at the signing ceremony at the White House was President Emil Rieve of the C.I.O. textile workers. As he left the White House, he announced a new goal: his 450,000 members will ask Congress to raise the minimum wage to $1 an hour...