Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Murphy hasn't budged from Boston. He simply waits for teams to come to town to play the Boston Braves and the Red Sox; the visitors are usually curious enough to go out to his place to hear his story. His main talking points: 1) a minimum wage of $7,500 a year, which sounds good to lesser lights who seldom finish up a season with enough carfare to get home; 2) 50% of the sale price to go to a player when he is sold to another club. Not until his union is good & strong does Murphy intend...
...matters stand now, a minimum of three high school or two college years of Latin or Greek are required of a candidate for the Bachelor of Arts degree; a student without this requirement receives a Bachelor of Sciences, whatever his field of concentration. For this reason, men working in Romance Languages or History and Literature may receive the Science degree, while those graduating in Physics or Chemistry may wind up with a Bachelor of Arts...
...welfare and the rights of the workers to be reconciled? Legislation pushed through in fury will not meet the immediate needs of the nation and can only serve to widen the already dangerous breach between labor and management. Rather the government's primary job is to guarantee the bare minimum of industrial operation urgently necessary to national and international welfare. To this end it should present the strike-bound industry with a plan for partial operation during the strike, and exert its full pressure to force acceptance. It is likely that even without governmental pressure management and labor would...
...food picture: namely, the vast reserves of C, K, and other emergency rations currently held in depots in U.S. and overseas by Army, Navy, Coast Guard and Marines against contingency of war. Despite international squabbling, I believe even military leaders will admit war is definitely no threat for a minimum of a year or two until other nations are in atom bomb production...
Even after whittling diets to a "bedrock" 1,500 daily calories, after stringently paring allocations of food to a subsistence minimum, Herbert Hoover conservatively figured that there still remained a "tragic gap" of 3,600,000 tons between world needs and world surpluses of exportable breadstuffs. This, said he, is "the whole amount necessary to save 40,000,000 people...