Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taralo said that 60 college students had been employed in the Quincy area alone last year and that he expected at least as many would be needed this summer. At present, his union is negotiating for an increase in the hourly minimum wage rate...
...unloaded. Then there was the time, too, when Dave Sr. decreed that Dave Jr. was to receive 5? on every case of "Bud" sold in the Alaska territory, but no less than $1,000 a month. When Levine squawked, Old Dave politely upped the ante to $1,000 minimum, plus 5? a case...
...Pawtucket recently had to close temporarily nine out of 23 schools as too dangerous to use.) In Kentucky, almost all of the 220 districts have already reached the maximum tax rate allowed by state law. Though the 1956 legislature appropriated more than $54 million to help districts maintain certain minimum standards of quality, only a small part of the amount was earmarked for construction-in spite of the fact that 200,000 children now go to schools with no inside plumbing or central heating. Without outside help, say Kentucky officials, the state will be able to raise less than half...
...King Features Syndicate explains with a gush, "opens to readers his heart-warming world of laughter, love and tears." The column, "Jim Bishop: Reporter," is already running in 66 dailies. It has landed Bishop a contract that, with other assignments for the Hearst press, guarantees him a minimum $65,000 a year, has earned him syndicate billing as "The HOTTEST Writer in America" and the opportunity to "go anywhere, write anything...
Testimony that the South's Protestant churches have not totally ignored the race issue came from Dr. Herman Long, director of the race relations department of the Board of Home Missions of the Congregational Christian Churches. He estimated that there is a minimum of 160 unsegregated Christian churches in the South. Further, he said, there are interracial ministerial associations in some 20 Southern cities, e.g., Richmond, Nashville. But in "about 20" churches and institutions, white ministers who have tried "to exert a positive . . . Christian leadership" in racial issues have been "displaced...