Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editors decided to do the Lever Bros. story three weeks ago, scheduling it for the first week in June when Charles Luckman's ascendancy to the $300,000-a-year presidency of the big soap firm's U.S. subsidiary was to be announced. That left a minimum of time for examining the massive Lever operation. Fortunately, Artzybasheff was available to draw the cover, which had to be done in a hurry...
True, Washington economists still worried about inflation. Gloomily they counted up the losses through strikes of more than 98.6 million man-days of work and a minimum $3.1 billion goods. They thought how badly that would affect the breathless race between production and demand. Industry's pipelines were sucked out. The 45-day coal strike was a blow at production's source from which it would take industry many months to recover. The smooth and efficient exchanges of goods and services had all but vanished...
...Army is still mobilized to a point where its drain on manpower and supply, combined with the other shortages, seriously hampers reconstruction. In its supreme effort to get the job done, the Kremlin is keeping concessions to consumers at a minimum. Life in the postwar Ukraine is dreary, incredibly dreary. It will stay that way for a long time...
...career clinic" at Adelphi College (Garden City, L.I.), offered advice on marriage. Some of it: "Don't take your husband for granted. Don't let your brain be fallow. . . . Take an intelligent interest. . . . Don't be a yes-woman ... keep your criticisms to the minimum. . . ." A career and marriage can't be mixed in equal parts, said she, for "one is sure to become a hobby...
...plans are concocted by Geoffrey Heyworth, the stocky, handsome chairman of the board. A onetime Rugby player, he came to Lever at 18, has climbed to the top chiefly because of his rare organizational talent which has kept the empire running with a maximum of dispatch, a minimum of confusion. When Chairman Heyworth has some important business with U.S. Lever Bros., he does not follow the tortuous way to Cambridge via South Africa. Instead, he simply picks up the phone, calls Chuck Luckman long distance...