Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chamber of Commerce audiences came out strongly against the big budget, the federal school-construction program, Government floors under wages and ceilings on hours, the extension of the minimum-wage law to 2,500,000 more workers as recommended last week by Secretary of Labor Mitchell. Many favored a cut in foreign aid, a reduction in domestic welfare programs...
...give a predetermined yield of bomber-killing heat, radiation and shock effect; a single burst can make an area of two-to-five cubic miles uninhabitable by an enemy bomber. Moreover, an atomic rocket can down a low-flying enemy bomber while causing only minimum radioactive contamination of the ground area below, since new warheads have been designed with a low fallout yield...
...Imam of Yemen, who acts like a Borgia Pope, is known to have a minimum of five diseases in various stages of arrested development (rheumatism, heart trouble, bilharziasis, gastritis, syphilis), but this does not prevent him from greedily devouring huge meals consisting of nothing but Russian salad heavily splashed with mayonnaise. The Imam's greatest trouble is psychological: he is under the impression that the British are depriving him of huge oil royalties...
...WIDER MINIMUM-WAGE coverage is currently No. 1 legislative goal of A.F.L.-C.I.O., will probably be passed by Congress this year. Unions want to extend law to 10 million more Americans (now covered: 24 miliion) to cover most workers for big companies engaged in interstate trade, plus some in retail trade and service, laundry and dry cleaning, communications, taxi business. Next goal: boost minimum wage to $1.25 from $1 an hour...
...Middle East, where he felt he needed reserves to mold an integrated oil empire. In 1949 he bought the oil rights to Saudi Arabia's 50% interest in the Neutral Zone. The price: a sky-high $9,500,000 plus a minimum $1,000,000 a year for three years -against royalties of 55? a bbl. Then Getty pumped $3,000,000 into exploration and development. Not until 1953 did a showing of oil come up from 3,500 ft. to indicate that his gamble would pay. That year the zone produced 7,559 bbl. of crude...