Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guild program contains six main points: that 50 per cent of the purchase price go to a player if he is sold, that the players have the right to arbitrate their salary disputes and grievances, that there be no maximum salary, that there be a minimum salary of $7500 per year, that contracts not be one sided, and that there be provisions for bonuses and insurance...
...officials tend to make the buyer uncertain of any fact except the one that his cost of living is going up. Although increases now appear to have the sanction of law, many student budgets will have become inadequate unless buyers continue to restrict their demands to needed items and minimum quanties...
...rules for individual player contracts), they will listen to grievances of player-spokesmen from all clubs. Probable first target of the players: the "reserve clause," which makes a contract binding on a player but allows a club to terminate it on ten days' notice. Other likely demands: a minimum salary ($5,000 or more) and a share in the profit when owners sell players to another club...
...Boston Braves decided not to wait for fall. He heard that Organizer Murphy had held a secret meeting with his players, promptly flew to Chicago to talk it over with his boys. Result: he agreed to cut out doubleheaders on days after night games and pay a minimum annual wage of $6,000, the paychecks to start with spring training...
Cuba will probably get more than the promised price. If Cuba has to pay more for food imports from the U.S., the sugar price will go up accordingly. U.S. housewives will probably pay more. And the maximum price for the 1946 crop will be the minimum price for the 1947 crop...