Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee was ordered by doctors to cut his engagements to the minimum. His ailment: "an early duodenal ulcer...
...campaign opened in earnest this week, Harry Truman left no doubts that he was going to campaign as the champion of labor. Six days before Labor Day, he fired off a message calling for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, extension of social security and health insurance, an increased minimum wage (from 40? to 75?). Then he climbed aboard his newly refurbished railroad car, the Ferdinand Magellan, to carry his message to a joint A.F.L. and C.I.O. rally in Detroit, to four other Michigan cities, and Toledo...
...Kaiser. Henry Kaiser took over another surplus war plant: the War Assets Administration leased the $22.8 million, 36-building aluminum mill at Newark, Ohio to Kaiser's Permanente Metals for ten years. Terms: 5% of the first year's sales, $125,000 a year minimum for the second, third and fourth years, and $250,000 minimum thereafter...
Ante & Ace. Last winter, when Larson asked Republic and other would-be operators to ante up, White offered to rent the 450,000-ton blast furnace and 382,000-ton coke plant for a minimum rental of $300,000 a year. "Not enough," snapped Larson. Charlie White decided to stand pat. Larson offered the plant to Republic for $2,500,000 a year and White turned him down flat. Larson then offered to arbitrate the price but White refused. Then, early this month, White played some aces. With only a few weeks for his interim lease to run, he threatened...
Larson had some good cards in his hand, too. Last week, he abruptly stopped haggling with Republic, turned to Henry Kaiser, who had once shown an interest in the plant. Asked Larson: Would Kaiser be willing to pay a minimum rent of $800,000 a year? Kaiser, who needs steel for his Kaiser-Frazer automobiles and knows that he can swap pig iron for it, jumped at the offer...