Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago, the Duke & Duchess of Windsor arrived quietly in London, went straight to Lord Dudley's tranquil Ednam Lodge estate near Windsor. The unrelenting royal family had sanctioned their visit only if there was a minimum of publicity and display...
...contract carried a minimum guarantee of $1,750 a week; every important recording company in the country had put in a bid. "Pops" Whiteman had signed them for a 13-week spot on the ABC network beginning this week, intends to announce each program himself. Says he: "For four or five years we've had nothing but screaming. It's almost unexplainable the way a crowd will quiet down and listen to Joe and his boys. I'll bet they'd listen for an hour without making a noise if they didn't have...
...problem lies in the fact that a wartime minimum has become a peacetime maximum. The Administrative Board, faced with unparalleled enrollments and equally large numbers of applications for admission, has tried to spread educational benefits as widely as possible, permitting waivers of war service credits in only a few exceptional cases. A diluted education, however, is no substitute for the real article, especially since so many of today's students have already had their educations interrupted and misshapen by the events of the past six years. Accepting war service credits should be a matter of choice, rather than of compulsion...
...order to keep government control to its necessary minimum, a Liberal favors cooperation and collective bargaining between industry and organized labor. He is a defender of labor's right to strike and to do anything lawful to enable it to meet industry on equal terms; but hr opposes "racketeering" and greedy, short sighted practices by either unions or employers...
...offering his own minimum facilities to those who needed them during these "early days," and by constant concentration on necessary repair work, to be done by a crew of plumbers, electricians, and carpenters, Jack Connors has whipped the Brunswick into shape in record time...