Word: substandard
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...University of Wisconsin's President Clarence A. Dykstra: "We have 263 returned veterans. These may run to 1,000 the coming year. ... 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...
...National War Labor Board last week mulled over a new minimum wage rate for the U.S. Public members tentatively suggested a new floor of 55? an hour (up from 50?) to correct substandard wage rates in the textile industry. Few were satisfied with this proposal. Industry members of WLB opposed the increase. Labor members offered their own minimum of 72? an hour. And the Textile Workers Union (C.I.O.), which originally asked for the raise, insisted that a 71? raise is needed to bring textile wages more in line with those in other industries...
With a majority of WLB apparently agreed that some raise is necessary, it looked as if the U.S. would get a new definition of substandard wages: i.e., that workers paid less than this minimum could be raised without WLB approval...
...decorated by Hitler last summer for stopping the Russians at the Vistula. Balck had shown defensive ability in the Ukraine, and after the Allied invasion of southern France he succeeded in bringing the remnants of his Panzer corps back to Germany. Now, wherever possible, Model and Balck are sacrificing substandard troops to save good ones. At sensitive spots they still counterattack with great force and frequency...
...eight or ten divisions-were believed to be lurking behind. The Berlin radio announced that units of the barrel-bottom Volkssturm or Home Army had been thrown in on the Western front; very few of these pathetic specimens, wearing distinctive arm bands, had been encountered on the fighting lines. Substandard Wehrmacht troops were captured in fixed positions during the first shock of the attack, but as the battle wore on the prisoners taken began to look more & more like the cream of the German army...