Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was hospitalized for quick surgery for lung cancer; doctor's prognosis: he will be away from his desk for a minimum of five or six weeks (acting chairman: General Maxwell Taylor, Army Chief of Staff...
...angry citizens organized STOP (the Committee to Stop This Outrageous Purge). Using a new anti-integration law rammed through last fall by Faubus himself, STOP flooded the city last week with petitions for a recall election of the Faubusite board members. In three days STOP surged over the required minimum of 7,000 signatures, at week's end had 9,603, plus financial contributions from all over the state...
...MINIMUM WAGE LAW for about 2,500,000 retail and service industry workers not currently covered by legislation will be pushed by Labor Secretary Mitchell. He wants $1 an hour minimum to cover enterprises with 100 or more employees, which use $1,000,000 annually in goods involved in interstate commerce. The Administration proposal will go up against the Kennedy-Morse bill, which would boost the minimum wage to $1.25 an hour, add coverage to include 7,800,000 employees of businesses with gross annual sales of $500,000 or more...
...difficult to fix a minimum budget for someone else to live on," Toepfer wrote recently in the Law School's Alumni Bulletin. "Difficulties arise from the hundreds of students with an endless variety of backgrounds, family situations, and personal requirements...
...Irving Pratt '26, General Chairman of the drive, recently stressed that the June goal of $82.5 million is "the minimum--the basic sum needed to strengthen the College. All non-essentials were eliminated before the Program was ever announced," he asserted...