Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...item in the treatment was heavy feeding. Patients had to take a minimum of 100 grams of liquid or solid protein a day, were threatened with tube feeding if they balked...
Food is scare here--searcer than during the war. July 21 saw the inauguration of bread rationing in England for the first time in history. This measure was declared necessary if England was to help food starving Europe, and, at the same time, insure a minimum supply of bread at home. Unfortunately, bread rationing hits the lower classes harder than the upper, for sandwiches comprise a, large part of the ordinary worker's lunch. Considerable opposition to bread rationing developed, but Parliament supported the Government on this issue, and rationing will continue until the shortage is alleviated...
Passed by the Senate last April, the bill passed the House last week in ten minutes and with an absolute minimum of debate. Yet in scope it is the most comprehensive program of education and cultural relations ever embarked upon by the United States, or any other country in the world. Just as the G.I. Bill of Rights brought higher education within the reach of millions, so the Fulbright plan makes foreign study available to thousands who never otherwise could have studied abroad. If a lasting peace ultimately rests on education and genuine international understanding, the Fulbright bill...
Always a Crisis. Congress had shown indecision and small courage, ducked unpleasant decisions (e.g., the draft law extension, fair employment practices, a minimum wage, OPA) when it could. The people of Mississippi were glad to send a mountebank back to represent them in the Senate for six more years. Congressman Andrew Jackson May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee and loudest voice in military matters, was accused of having aided wartime profiteers and chiselers...
Said Governor-Elect Gene Talmadge: ". . . While I am Governor, I know that such atrocities will be at a minimum...