Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first half of the second period both teams looked, to be brief, very weak. Ball-handling was sloppy, passes and shots wild, scoring at a minimum...
Sound trucks blared the order: "Wear shoes when you come to town, put on clean clothes, look tidy and decent. It is a shame to go walking around barefoot in your country's capital." Having just raised the minimum wage in Haiti from 50? to 70? a day, up-&-coming President Dumarsais Estimé was out to improve the appearance and living standards of his mouse-poor people...
...Congress that the long-range oil picture was also dark. The U.S., he said, was using up its oil four times as fast as it was finding it. Said Forrestal: if the nation went to war tomorrow, it would be 2,000,000 barrels a day short of its minimum needs (current crude production: 5.3 million barrels a day). Forrestal wanted the U.S. to create a vast new industry to make petroleum out of coal, natural gas and oil shale...
...administration is obviously to restore confidence in the banking system . . . first of all ... a national bank holiday of about a week ... Whatever solution is put into effect, the era of incompetent banking, banking that exists in so many cases for the maximum of private gain and the minimum of public good must be forcibly brought to a close." (March...
...during my career on the CRIMSON that the famous case of the scrubwomen occurred. I don't recall the details now, but the central issue was that Harvard was paying a certain group of scrubwomen less than the state minimum wage for women workers. A group of alumni, headed by Corliss Lamont if I recall correctly, took the initiative in publicizing the case and raised a fund to make restitution to the women concerned. I had to write an editorial defining the CRIMSON's stand on this gesture of the alumni group. The theme of the editorial was "a plague...