Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then comes a schoolroom shot, of a class about to be shown a movie. The film-within-a-film is an animated cartoon done by two ex-Disney artists-with no Disney gags. It explains the processes of sex and pregnancy with simplified diagrams and a minimum of anatomical detail (at first the tails of spermatozoa were shown wiggling in their movements to reach and fertilize the ovum, but technical advisers feared that schoolkids might associate the wiggling with human swimming, break into nervous laughter...
...that time the AYD group was told that their initial petition failed to meet requirements set by the Student Government. The first petition fell three short of the minimum of 20 members' signatures...
...agreement, the 33 importing nations in the group will buy at least 500,000,000 bushels a year for the next five years from Canada, the U.S. and Australia. Canada will supply 46% of it, the U.S. 37%, Australia the rest. Maximum price will be $2 a bushel. The minimum will be $1.50 the first year, will then drop 10? a year...
...sadly agreed (TIME, March 1). Nevertheless with OAP's blessing, Doubleday will go ahead with the diaries' publication. The book will still be the May selection of the Book-of-the-Month and some 75 U.S. newspapers will run a series of excerpts. But all royalties (a minimum of $160,000) and all other profits will be held in escrow until GAP decides whether or not Doubleday is entitled to anything more than printing costs. Furthermore, Doubleday will not have the sole publishing rights. And as it is using only part of the diaries, there is plenty...
Should the architects decide that more meeting rooms and less offices are needed, contractors could do the job at a minimum of expense. Offices are so arranged that a group of them can be changed to an assembly chamber by simply tearing down a few walls. In most cases this can be done without touching plumbing and electrical connections...