Word: minimum
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Last week the World Bank, originally chartered in 1944, finally transacted its first piece of business. With a minimum of formality and the signing of a mere twelve documents, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development took a positive step toward "bringing about a smooth transition from a wartime to a peacetime economy." This first step was a loan of $250,000,000 to France, for 30 years, at 3¼% interest, plus 1% commission (on the outstanding part) which the Bank collects to build up a special reserve. The negotiations, which took only six weeks, were conducted...
...brought not only to themselves but to industry as a whole. Senator Taft would do well to study the history of the United Steel Workers for an example of what a mature union, working with a cooperative management, can accomplish. The process of collective bargaining, conducted with the very minimum of government supervision, can produce more stable and peaceful industrial relations than can result from Congressional fiat...
Graduate houseworkers must be paid a minimum wage, and are guaranteed minimum work conditions. Wages will be substantially higher and conditions better than at present...
...satisfactory school district, as the commission defines it, has a minimum of 1,200 pupils, a maximum of 10.000. Each school in the district should have at least 300 students, who travel not more than 45 minutes or an hour to get there.* In elementary schools there should be at least one teacher per grade; in high schools, at least twelve teachers in all (some of them specialists: music, art, etc.). The commission would call no district satisfactory unless 90% of the students stuck until high-school graduation ("Farm boys & girls get from two to four years' less schooling...
...more in the way of acting and direction than a quick reading of Sean O'Casey's masterpiece might indicate, a lot more than the Dramatic Club has been able to give it. With almost no exceptions, for example, the east last night failed to achieve even the minimum requirements of a brogue. Actors crossed awkwardly in front of each other, faced the audience for no apparent reason other than a sheer desire...