Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spend all day in Widener," mused Vag, as he finished the last page of the only book he could find that fell under the category of "minimum compulsory." Better get some exercise, you can study better anyway--really have to keep in shape to get the most out of these books. It was wonderful to exercise just when you wanted to--no pushups, no drill, just whatever strikes you at the moment...
...A.V.C. accepted as members men & women from all World War II armed services, in & out of uniform, and from the Merchant Marine. It had plumped noisily for FEPC, OPA, the minimum-wage bill, federal housing subsidies, other allied issues. From inside & out it had been damned as Communistic, boosted as liberal, dismissed as just another fly-by-night collection of hotheads. Even its leaders admitted they didn't know what the rank & file thought...
They have not neglected some shrewd vote-getting, socialistic tactics. The government has planned 1) a longterm program of socialized health-&-hospital service that will cost taxpayers $5 a head per year, 2) community-housing schemes. Teachers get a minimum of $1,200 a year ($400 more than the Dominion average...
...Seattle, a maritime convention of the International Labor Office was meeting in an effort to set a minimum worldwide seamen's wage. But the minimum would not be anything like U.S. wages.* Chile shipowners pay their crews only $18 a month. Canadians pay $90. The rest of the world ranges in between. Scandinavian countries pay $80. Britain, which would give the U.S. the hottest competition, pays...
Inadequately guarded P.W.s have been stealing and reselling surplus material at an officially estimated minimum rate of $1 million a month, with single transactions running as high as 500,000 francs. Proceeds go into cigarets and drinks or into buying false identity cards for use in underground transportation back to Germany...