Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...payments to fit the needs of individual veterans in an age of higher social security and private pensions. Key new principle: a "graduated scale" that turns the pension into a supplemental payment, brings each pensioner's annual income (including social security) from all sources to the $1,400 minimum, higher if he has dependents. A single veteran with an annual income of $1,300 would get only $10 a month in pension; a married veteran with two children and only $1,200 income would get $90 a month more...
Positions of Strength. Both sides considered themselves in strong positions. The St. Louis guild is aggressive and well heeled, over the years has brought minimum newspaper salaries to a scale second only to New York. With members drawing up to $80 a week strike pay, the guild says that only four have reported switching to new, permanent jobs, only 10% have taken part-time jobs to last out the strike. Last week the guild laid plans to put out its own morning daily...
...simple answer to the problem of preparation lies in standardized secondary schooling--those schools which fail to meet the minimum standards imposed by Ivy League colleges simply are not considered at admissions time. President Emeritus Conant has been a strong advocate of this "pull the high schools up by our bootstraps" theory of admissions, despite the danger of leaving the the small town high school irrevocably behind...
...from $5 a week in Iowa and Kansas to $45 a week in New York and Alaska and from five weeks duration in Florida to thirty weeks in Pennsylvania. So far, the states have shown no desire to agree on such a standardization among themselves, and a Federally-legislated minimum, such as that envisioned by bills before the Senate and House, seems the only practical solution. Another measure which would decrease the burdens of unemployment would be a bill to extend the Federal insurance program beyond its present scope. Both these plans would serve to insure that workers...
...shortage in miles rowed is particularly serious, but the varsity crews have nearly completed the 200 miles on the water which the coaches regard as the minimum necessary. The time shortage has contributed to Coolidge's difficulties in sorting out the oarsmen; it has prevented the individual attention and complicated the process of shuffling line-ups, since there has been little spare time to wait and see how a boat would settle down together...