Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...powwow got results. The industry agreed to set aside 5% of production for the armed forces, the estimated amount necessary to meet minimum needs. The oil will be taken out of the already tight civilian supply (5,100,000 bbls. daily against a demand of 5,700,000). To civilian users this meant that the anticipated winter shortage of fuel oil, and other fuels, would be that much worse. But the armed forces would not be operating on starvation rations...
...Newcomers. Aside from their contacts with Johnson, many of the present owners-including an ex-Army officer and an editorial writer-had no particular qualifications to operate a restaurant except some loose cash. The cost of land and construction (ranging from $50,000 to $90,000), plus a minimum of $1,000 which they paid for a Johnson franchise, was their big contribution...
...increase in minimum subsistence and pension allowances (from $105 to $115 a month) for disabled veterans taking rehabilitation training...
...both England and the U.S., polo seemed to be on its last expensive, thoroughbred legs. It had never been a common man's sport, since the minimum equipment usually includes a string of ponies at a minimum of $1,500 each. Now it was getting too expensive for the rich, too. Obviously no one was going to rewrite the nation's tax laws just to save polo. Millionaire Poloist George H. Bostwick decided that the only cure for the ailing old sport was an injection of professionalism...
...would take all of. Straight's enterprise and all of Sir Harold's science to get BOAC through the next five years. That is the estimated minimum time it will take the British aircraft industry to perfect the jet transports with which it hopes to surpass U.S. planes. Until then, BOAC will have to make do with obsolete, uneconomic transports, many of them converted bombers, and with intermediate new models now abuilding, such as the big Shetland flying boat (see cut). BOAC bought five Constellations, was about to get more when the Labor Government forbade it to spend...