Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides dislocating labor, the shock programs disastrously snarled Red China's transport system. In early December 70% of the railroad cars moving in and out of Shanghai were serving the blast furnaces. To provide the city with even the barest minimum of food, railwaymen were driven to perching live hogs or baskets of fowl atop cars already overloaded with ore, pig iron or coal...
...some of the years now given to elementary and junior high schools, fill them with high school level courses. ¶ Legislate widespread and continuous federal aid to education. ¶ Keep local control of curriculum, but strengthen schools by the establishment of national minimum standards. Hechinger suggests a National Board of Education Advisers, appointed by the President, from citizens of widely varied occupation. The board, apparently, would determine only the minimum attention given to each subject; Hechinger would rule out "any interference with matters of personnel, curriculum, teaching methods and the selection of textbooks...
...Charles A. Cannon of North Carolina's Cannon Mills Co., the nation's third largest textile company (towels and sheets), has long had the reputation for going it alone both as a businessman and as an employer. Last week Cannon added to his reputation. He raised the minimum wage at Cannon Mills (effective Feb. 13) to $1.25 an hour, up from the company's present starting pay of $1.12. Those of his 24,000 employees now earning above the old minimum get 10? an hour more. Scores of mills ranging from West Point (Ga.) Manufacturing...
This means that a run to New York, for example, could be managed for as little as $8 per passenger. Since there is a minimum rental charge on the planes, flights to points nearer home will be somewhat less money-saving. Nonetheless, club members have high hopes of exploiting the weekend rush to women's colleges such as Smith and Mt. Holyoke...
...Mercury, the first missile-borne man-in-space capsule (TIME, Jan. 26), the Pentagon's IBM machines began sorting through Air Force and Navy records for pilots with certain specifications. Among them: a university degree in the physical sciences or engineering, completion of military test-pilot training, a minimum of 1,500 logged hours of flight time, age less than 40, maximum height 5 ft. 11 in., superb physical condition, and physical and psychological attributes suited for space flight. Last week Keith Glennan, boss of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, announced that NASA had found no to fill...