Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chances. Can the Russian people ultimately break through the straitjacket which these men so carefully, so busily stitch for them? Last week brought signs that the Kremlin was still able to tend to the people's minimum needs. So long as it does, the 193,000,000 Russians are most unlikely to revolt. As to the long future, the American who knows Soviet Russia best has this...
Naming names and presenting devastating documentary evidence to back up his case, Carlson's story recounts perilous personal sleuthing under the alias of "Robert Thompson, Nationalist Veteran." Despite a lack of technical slickness, the book's of feet is Shock, penetrating with the knowledge that a minimum of 5,000,000 ex-servicemen are unorganized, politically impressionable, socially semi-literate, and that we are due for hard times when demagogues may make hay. You are reminded that the fanatics serve as the fall guys of this country's fascism; that the root of the evil lies in the transmission belt...
Citing the Council's willingness to cooperate with the class, he urged that at least a "minimum amount of time be spent in drawing up plans for a nominating committee and class elections...
...Bright-eyed, pint-sized K. C. Wu has not made Shanghai into a model city, but as its tireless mayor he has quashed the rice black market, raised coolie living standards and, by a combination of cajoling, arguing and policing, kept labor troubles at a minimum. His Confucius-like warning to labor and capital: "When hen is dead, no eggs will come." Called "The Mandarin Mayor" by some resentful employers and union men, K. C. Wu has won the support of foreigners, one of whom recently said: "If China had more K. C. Wus, I'd know the Chinese...
...penicillin test on 500 patients, the mission got lasting cures in every case.† But at $5 a shot (minimum treatment: two shots), penicillin is beyond the means of Haiti's treasury or the mission's appropriation. Last week, outside the mission's clinics, stinking, pitiful yaws victims still lined up each morning by the thousands. Some of them crawled miserably on their haunches, because their legs had been eaten away. Some had no faces left, only teeth protruding from lipless, roofless jaws...