Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...I.L.W.U. got the sugar workers a contract providing minim urns of 41?to 43½?an hour (up from 26½?), plus perquisites such as company housing and medical care. This year the I.L.W.U., strong and cÕnifident, asked for much more sweetening: 1) a 65? minimum; 2) joint company-union administration of perquisites; 3) a 40-hour week; 4) the union shop. That was too much for the planters; for weeks negotiations have been stalemated...
...Rappleye, dean of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Having signed up the city government, HIP last week began to enroll private employers too. Eligible for membership: any employe with less than $5,000 a year income, provided 75% of his firm's employes join (minimum group...
...received several offers in the course of its preliminary drive, but needs at least 250 additional volunteers in order to top its quota minimum of 250 pints. Since donations can be accepted only on the above named days between one and six in the afternoon, advance appointments are required. These can be made by calling, writing, or appearing in person at Phillips Brooks House during the coming week. All men are urged to consider this appeal not only on the grounds of service to others but to themselves as well, for the satisfaction derived form donating blood is very great...
...Radcliffe girl with her pile of books has increased the confusion in already crowded classrooms. She has taken with a minimum of mumbling the classroom changes at the beginning of each term, although she occasionally wonders whether she is attending the Peripatetic School or Harvard University. With good grace she has given up Widener for the basement of Memorial Chapel, and for the most part she obeys the order to "sit in a lady-like manner" on the steps of that building. She ignores the vertical stares of Harvard veterans although she is tempted to retaliate in kind...
...under the auspices of the Carleton Club, the fracas will feature witches from Wellesley and Simmons, residents of Boston, and even a smattering of 'Cliffedwellers peering in at the windows. Stags are urged to come dressed as something more original than a college student, with mask as the absolute minimum, since an undisclosed prize will be awarded to the wearer of the most startling costume...