Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, the estimates on world grain available for export had been upped 4 to 5 million tons, enough to close the gap between supply and minimum, needs. So some U.S. farmers and grain dealers who had been hoarding grain for higher prices were frightened into selling...
Part of the minimum annual output of 225,000 tons will be used to maintain a Government stockpile of 650,000 tons, one year's supply for the U.S. Rubber fabricators will be required to use the rest, i.e., mix a certain percentage with natural 'rubber, as at present...
...satin-lined bronze casket she had requested before her death. At burial, this was enclosed in a steel, water proof vault. As soon as possible after the funeral, an elaborate marble slab was erected over the grave. The difference between the cost of that funeral and the minimum it could have cost would have seen one of my children through four years of college...
Fewer nightclubs were open, and some were working hard to stay open. The last two nights that Comic George Jessel played the Copacabana, the place threw away its minimum charge. The Latin Quarter advertised "a complete evening's entertainment for $5." Growled the headwaiter at the Latin Quarter: "The goose is here but she ain't layin' any more...
...winter Olympics opened with a maximum of angry yammering and a minimum of friendly yodeling. First, everybody mumbled all the fine words about "amity and good will." Then they went on with their scrapping. The Swedes charged that the games were being run for the benefit of St. Moritz hotels and shops. The British, of all people, deplored the emphasis on afternoon tea. The steering wheel of a U.S. bobsled was tampered with, and shrieks of "Sabotage!" echoed through the Alps and re-echoed across U.S. sport pages. But all this was nothing beside the War over the Two American...