Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason was shockingly obvious: the Muscogee County Airport, like some 300 other U.S. airports regularly used by commercial aircraft, has no control tower to regulate landings. The Civil Aeronautics Administration has barely enough funds to operate towers at 117 of the nation's larger airports (minimum annual cost: $15,000 each). The Georgia crash might help get additional funds from Congress to operate more...
...transit sheds (over 2,000,000 square feet) and grain elevators (15-million-bushel capacity), Montrealers handled nearly a billion tons of cargo. More than 6,000 ships (some 1,600 of them oceangoing) passed through the port's 100 miles of dredged (32½ feet minimum) channel and tied up at its ten miles of berths. A third of the city's 1,000,000-plus population makes a living from the port...
...demand and not need, between which the report draws a sharp distinction. "Witness the American male, who prefers steak and potatoes and apple pie to a better-balanced diet. Too many of us drink milk dutifully, but highballs gladly." If the U.S. were to try to supply all needs (minimum standards of health and decency for everyone) as well as all demands (all the goods which the wealthier want to purchase), then the estimates would have to be raised. The U.S. would have to turn out goods & services worth $200 billion by 1950 and $219 billion...
...employed and the gross national product is running at the rate of about $195 billion ($166 billion in 1944 prices). The report expects that the present working force will drop as some of the overfull employment is eliminated. Nevertheless, to come up to the report's minimum projection, the U.S. will have to increase its output only 7% in the next four years. Compared to what the U.S. has done in the last six years under forced draft, this seemed small...
...Harvard Trust Company announced that it had dropped even the special minimum loan rate of 50 cents, which it had granted previously to veterans certified by the AVC. There will now be no charge by the bank for the emergency ten-day loan...