Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...factories in the Cleveland area. The $100,000,000 they were spending would spill out into about 25,000 jobs. The prize catch was a whopper: two General Motors plants (to produce the new light Chevrolet) that would cost upwards of $50,000,000, make jobs for a minimum of 10,500 men.*Cleveland was working on more factory prospects, with about 25,000 more jobs as the prizes...
...Left." Salazar's own policies have encouraged both the disillusionment and the drift to the Right and Left extremes. Last month in Lisbon an old streetcar motorman, who earns $30 a month after 25 years' service, summed it up: "I ask only for the minimum to enable me and my family to live. Salazar gives us only the right to die. . . . Yes, I belong to the Anti-Fascist Unity Council ... I can't tell you how. The M.U.D.? Too much lawyers, too many words, too afraid...
...Star Line, which prides itself that its Queens are the fastest ships in transatlantic service, last week took the lead in something else. It announced a thumping increase in fares. Sir Percy E. Bates, Cunard board chairman, said that when the Queen Elizabeth begins peacetime service this fall, the minimum rate for first-class passage will be "on the order of $360, perhaps more...
...steel-fabricating workers waiting on the outcome. In Windsor and Chatham 3,500 Chrysler Corp. workers struck last week for a $2-a-day raise. Some 6,000 General Motors workers may follow them out this week. To all unions, the 15? boost for the lumbermen was the minimum they wanted...
...Straw hats" are back in style. When war cut short the Great American Summer Vacation, summer stock companies began folding fast; some 125 were operating in 1941, only 25 last summer. Last week,100-odd-91 of them employing Equity actors (at a $46 weekly minimum)-were already onstage across the nation; others were lurking in the wings, ready to pounce on July vacationers...