Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When newsmen learned of the Republocrats' meeting, several southern Representatives rushed to register their avowals that they had riothing to do with such an alliance.* Disclaimed or not, the House coalition could usually count on a minimum of 26 of the Democrats' paper majority of 46 votes. If its organization carried through to formation of a solid bloc, the coalition could probably rewrite OPA legislation to suit itself-as it had the Administration's housing bill (TIME, March...
Last week the coalition in the Senate took its turn at shredding an Administration measure. The target: the so-called 65? Minimum Wage Bill, for which there is little love in Dixie. Southerners scrambled to load it down with riders the Administration could never accept. Examples: depowering of the OPA, curbs on labor unions, 20% increases in farm commodity prices. The strategy was clear: burden the bill with amendments and make the Administration compromise on a lower minimum wage figure...
...colleges, things were just as bad. Princeton raised faculty salaries (to a $2,500 minimum for instructors), passed the higher cost of living on to students, whose tuition was boosted from $450 to $500. Colgate and Vassar had already done the same...
...teacher shortage is not the malady; it is a symptom. . . . The American people are trying to buy an expensive product cheap. . . ." The National Education Association estimated that it would cost the U.S. $420 million a year to raise all teachers' salaries to what it regards as a desirable minimum...
...Manhattan the International Air Transport Association last week ended ten days of wrangling over temporary new minimum fares on North Atlantic air routes. It might have saved itself the trouble. The new rates, which must be approved by the U.S., British, Canadian and Swedish Governments, were only a smitch under the old high rates...