Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...approved police-reporter fashion, stringing them together in the order of the excitement they contained. In the New York Times, Correspondent Edward A. Morrow also wrote of truncheons and firehoses. But he took pains to say that the soldiers "kept their tempers and followed orders to use a minimum of force...
...Strong's secrets: pick poems on subjects that will interest the pupils; stress sound and rhythm ("Vachel Lindsay will help you a great deal"); don't be afraid of noise ("let them say it with all the ferocity they can manage"); keep explanation and annotation to a minimum ("I have heard more than once a heartfelt cry, 'Oh, sir, please don't explain it!' "); never do violence to a child's feelings or sense of reticence; be sparing in expressing opinions; put enjoyment first, second, third and fourth...
...consider the so-called "bonanza" of some $200,000,000 to be doing all right by us. We prefer lower prices, adequate housing, a VA free of politics, an FEPC, an increased minimum wage, and a guaranteed annual wage...
Sidelines. The industry's plight was no secret. Instead of the 30 million pounds of airframe (about 3,000 planes) estimated in 1945 as the minimum necessary to keep aircraft factories alive, U.S. planemakers are operating at an annual rate of only 20 million pounds. The armed services, which had hoped for between 2,500 and 3,500 new planes a year, have been cut by Congress to about 1,400-barely enough to keep six plants going...
...drawing up a solution and selling it to Congress next January would fall to the new, top Air Policy Commission.*Already in the blueprint stage is a program sketched in by the services, the State Department, the Civil Aeronautics Board and ACC subcommittees. Its goal: a new production minimum, which would probably run to 40 million pounds of airframe a year. Its double-barreled approach: 1) to move all first-class mail and parcel post by air; 2) to help airlines buy the new planes necessary to carry the load with federal loans and subsidies...