Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been outside the mines at the time. In all cases except one, there had been sharp drops in barometric pressure (due to an approaching cold front or a low-pressure area). Two-thirds of the mine explosions, he found, took place a day or so after the pressure minimum...
...candidates serves as the jumping-off point for a series of little essays about various politically-minded organizations around the University. This seems to be the kind of material that someone interested in any one group could easily have found out for himself, and it is presented with a minimum of readibility. What prompted this expose in a literary magazine is not too clear. Perhaps it shouldn't be dwelt...
...under the rug and hoped no one had noticed. On the other hand, support of the draft by itself seemed to be almost equally as strong. Late in March, the Senate Armed Services Committee conducted hearings, at which Defense Secretary James Forrestal outlined what he considered to be the "minimum necessity" for United States military security. Its most immediate requirement was an armed force of 1,734,000 men, which, said Forrestal, would be filled by a draft of men between the ages...
...Council has set up a special investigating committee to figure out where the added money can come from. Haveles's committee recommends, as a starter, a 65 cent minimum wage for student employees of the University--"except for most library and baby-sitting jobs...
...protested that they prefer to contribute directly to clubs and activities of their own choice, as they do under the present Pay Day system; have declared that the fee taxes students who choose to remain aloof from undergraduate activities; and have charged that the increase from $5.75, the present minimum levy, to $12.00 is too great a boost...