Word: substandard
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Relegated (and reconciled, perforce) to a desk job in Washington, B.C., because of substandard eyesight, he found expression in this brainchild which he designed on V-J day holiday morning as a shoulder patch for himself and fellow officers to wear, he says, in American Legion parades...
Three days earlier, a Senate labor subcommittee had called on the War Labor Board to regard all wages below 65? (instead of 55?, as at present) as substandard. And two days later, 70 House members had signed a petition asking President Truman to revise the battered Little Steel formula, permit a boost of at least 20% in the basic pay rate "to avoid sowing the seeds of a disastrous depression...
...National War Labor Board set a new minimum wage last week for U.S. industry. The minimum: 55? an hour. The Board jacked up the wage floor from 50? simply by issuing a new definition of "substandard" wages, the same method it used to authorize raises to 50,000 textile workers a fortnight...
...might try for a stand on the little Erft River, which is less of an obstacle than the Roer, but which splits into several troublesome branches in front of Cologne (see map). He had shown how he could fight with substandard troops on river lines, in woods, and in his fearful maze of Rhineland fortifications-and what he had shown was very good. But there comes a point at which skill and tricks are swamped by power...
...University of Wisconsin's President Clarence A. Dykstra thought the GI Bill of Rights would be soundly interpreted: "It will be no kindness . . . to let (any man) do substandard work for any considerable time, or to encourage men to try college work in order to get an education stipend from Uncle...