Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Outlawed block booking and the fixing of minimum admission prices as a condition of rental. It also ordered the film companies to eliminate unreasonable "clearances," i.e., the period that must elapse between the time a picture is shown in a first-run house and its appearance in neighboring theaters...
According to the HLU, the CIO union is striking for "a 29 cent hourly wage increase in order to bring the wages of the highest-paid third of its workers up to the Bureau of Labor Standards minimum for the urban worker--$66 per week." A packers' counter offer of nine cents has been turned down by the union...
...Democrat will get my vote." But he added that there was no truth in reports that Southern states would hold a rump convention. Even without the South, Harry Truman seemed to be in. National Chairman J. Howard McGrath announced that his rock-bottom figures showed the President with a minimum of 900 of a possible 1,234 votes on the first ballot...
Slashing to three days of balloting the voting for Radcliffe club officers which formerly spanned three weeks, Student Government this week enabled the majority of Cliffe organizations to close their books on the past year and start a new one with a minimum of confusion...
Rate Peace. CAB called a halt to the rate war between scheduled and independent air freight carriers (TIME, Oct. 6). It set a new minimum rate of 16? a ton mile for the first 1,000 miles, 13? thereafter. CAB thought that lower rates "would endanger the sound development of the air freight industry...