Word: minimums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...machines to provide more pension revenue. Elsewhere the pension cause was successful. North Dakota approved pensions of $40 a month. Colorado rejected an amendment repealing its present $45-a-month pensions which its opponents declared were bankrupting the State. Missourians thought it was all right to lower the age minimum for pensioners from...
Next, declared the President, must come Phase No. 5-housing for lower-middle families who can afford rooms between USHA's $5 maximum and FHA's $10 minimum. The President hoped that money to finance Housing in this field could be found among thousands of people with $1,000 or so to invest, small private capital brought into an enormous pool by a sure promise of 3% or 3½% interest...
...Recommended minimum wages for steel companies accepting Government contracts of $10,000 or more. Hearings on the matter were started last July by the Public Contracts Board of the Department of Labor. Last week the Board recommended minima of 62½? an hour in the East and West, 45? in twelve Southern States. Subject to approval by Secretary of Labor Perkins, the recommendations are a blow to small independent steel companies, a blessing to Labor which estimated that 75,000 men would get raises...
...owners of all makes of cars-"to pool their practical experience with the technical skill of General Motors' engineers and production experts." These "invitations," generally in the form of illustrated questionnaires and booklets, are sent to lists of the rank & file public, of which a minimum of 25% invariably reply, and to a special Weaver list of 100,000 motor enthusiasts, of whom as many as 90% will reply. On the average, Weaver manages to get answers to about two-thirds of his 3,000,000 "invitations." Passing on what he learns to his superiors, he is wont...
Last week the 18,000 peasants, made up of 1,800 families, each of which was required to have a minimum of eight members, sailed to the Libyan coast on steamships which had seen heavy service shuttling troops and wounded from Italy to Spain and Ethiopia and back. Heads of the families were either veterans of the Ethiopian campaign or stanch Fascist Party members. Many of the women were big with child. Three infants had been delivered on the Genoa docks. Trucks, provided for each family by the Government, rumbled each family to its new home. These were...