Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traditional dockers' salute of "Eh, brother?" they retorted: "Down with Deakin," or "We're not fighting the government but we want our rights. Where's our freedom now?" In 1941, they had bartered a little freedom for a little more "security": in return for a guaranteed minimum weekly wage, they had accepted a penalty clause. Now the clause chafed. It had required only a small flash to set off a rebellion...
Much of Fury has the neatly packed economy of the classic western. Some of the outdoor photography is excellent. Music, throughout the picture, is wisely held to a minimum; in most of the outdoor shots and in the final chase, there is none. Thus unencumbered, Director Bruce Humberstone has created intense excitement out of beating hooves, panting horses, long, treacherous silences, heart-stopping squeaks of leather and the sinister scuffling of men stalking each other through the ruined fort...
...increase in the minimum wage from 40? to 75? an hour...
...source: Europe's D.P. camps. They decided to bring over 2,000 girls (mostly Czechs, Poles and Estonians) as cooks and maids. Shipping shortages cut the first group to ten, but after six months, 2,000 were in Canada and at work (for $35 a month minimum on a one-year contract), half of them in city homes and on farms, the rest in hospitals, schools...
...years, Hargrave told the House Appropriations Committee, the U.S. had stockpiled less than 10% of the five-year goal set as a bare minimum for one year of total war. The reasons: 1) Congress had been laggard with money (it had supplied only 9% of the needed $3 billion funds); 2) the board itself had hesitated to deprive industry of any goods in short supply. Now, said Hargrave (who is president of Eastman Kodak Co.), the time had come to think less of industry and more of national security. Said he: "Industry can afford to undergo a certain amount...