Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paper stated that "an international agreement to stop the testing of nuclear bombs now could serve as a first step toward a more general disarmament." Pauling expressed the belief that it would be impossible to produce a "clean" nuclear bomb, with a minimum of radioactive fallout...
...four rows, all maintaining good speed in rhythmic, graceful waves of disciplined traffic. Traffic policemen are never seen on roads normally. They rush in from police stations only if there is an accident or anything untoward happens. All public buses invariably run on time, and are rarely overcrowded. The minimum sounding of the horn, by all motor vehicles, is amazing...
Syngman Rhee has never made peace with Japan, has demanded, among other reparations. "40 years back pay" for Korean workers exploited by Japanese companies during Japan's long occupation. In 1952 Rhee arbitrarily set up the so-called "Rhee line" which extended Korean sovereignty a minimum 60 miles offshore, began arresting any Japanese fishermen caught violating...
...suggestions to President Eisenhower for beefing up U.S. education, the Department of Health. Education and Welfare obviously had its eye as much on the nation's pocketbooks as on its classrooms. The plan, pared to a minimum, would cost the U.S. Government about $224 million in federal money the first year and an estimated $1 billion by the time it terminates at the end of four. Its chief proposals...
...fifth of income above $3,000 is budgeted for the mortgage, utilities and upkeep. Under the old standards, a buyer with an after-taxes income of $5,000 could not expect to qualify for an FHA-insured house costing more than $10,600 unless he had more than the minimum required down payment. Now such a prospective buyer can qualify for a $12,600 house...