Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United's new plantations on the Pacific coast and in the Dominican Republic, homes for workers-complete with kitchen and Stateside toilet-are as big an advance over older hovels as a Park Avenue apartment over a cold-water flat. Minimum wages, though still less than $1 a day, are half again as high as those paid on Guatemalan-owned plantations...
...book clubs will sell over 75,000,000 books and gross $100,000,000, one-sixth of all U.S. book sales. The clubs' rapid spread is due primarily to the simple fact that book clubs are the best means yet found to reduce publishing risks to a minimum...
...Dirt for Authors. He pays publishers 30? a copy to lease a book's plates, has the book printed himself. He guarantees publishers minimum royalties of $100,000, often pays much more. Example: he paid Publisher Appleton-Century about $150,000 for Arch of Triumph. The publisher split this fee with Author Erich Maria Remarque, just as all B.O.M.C. royalties are split with authors...
...Building materials, cast-iron pipe, lumber, bricks, laths, radiators, etc. were far below the minimum requirements for the nation's housing program...
Partial Answer. Today the bulk of Blue Cross enrollments come from big industries, some of which pay all or part of employe membership costs. Hospitals must meet minimum technical standards set by the American Hospital Association. Blue Cross's annual revenue...