Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bank has agreed to waive its $3 minimum loan fee, supplying the special grants for a 50-cent service charge...
...despite the partial fusion of faculty and courses and the high percentage of Radcliffe students that eventually marry Harvard men, have been and will continue to be two separate institutions. Continuation of the present policy, which permits 'Cliffedwellers to take Harvard courses above Freshman level, will keep to a minimum the number of professors who hold forth in New Lecture Hall or Emerson and an hour or so later toddle across the Square to deliver the same soporific to saddle-shoed, plaid-skirted intellectuals. Course offerings of the two colleges are 80 similar that it is a waste...
...average miner lives in a company-owned, one-story, unpainted wooden shack more than 30 years old. Of 1,154 company houses surveyed, only one in ten had a bathroom with tub or shower; 75% had outdoor privies (few meeting minimum sanitary standards); less than half had piped-in water; only a third were properly screened. Well over half the towns had no sewage system or garbage collection; housewives often dumped garbage near the house or in foul streams running through the town (see cut). Though miners lack bathrooms at home, less than half the mines have showers for washing...
...some of them were shocked when the Bell-controlled board of eleven directors awarded him 1) a five-year contract at a minimum of $55,000 a year; 2) a $160,000 annuity which would add some $10,000 to the $18,000-a-year pension which he is slated to receive at 60; 3) a royalty of $5 for each unit sold over 5,000 of a motorized wheelbarrow that Bell invented. The directors also set up a stock option plan for Bell to buy up to 50,000 shares of common at prices as low as half...
...sharp increase in fares has scared off few travelers. First-class rates on the Elizabeth are up 27% over prewar-a minimum of $365 one way. Other rates are up as much as 50% (lowest fare: $165, tourist class). Other liners have boosted prices proportionately. But such figures will be purely academic to travelers unless they have their space already allotted. Practically all ships are booked solid to September, with few cancellations coming in. Example: for the 852 berths on its three ships, Holland America Line has a waiting list of 10,000. Most ship operators frankly admit that only...