Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their parleys was announced by Homer Martin. He was preparing a blanket union contract for some 2,000 plants which make parts for Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, et al.; parts makers who are, of course, dependent upon their big customers for economic life. A standard contract would fix the minimum hourly wage at 65? for some 250,000 supply plant workers...
...debate, in the course of which Professor Schumpeter was variously described as "naive" and as possessing "Machiavellian insight", was conducted on the Oxford Union system, which involved a maximum of cross-examination and a the minimum of perorations. Spencer D. Pollard, instructor in Economics, presided...
...round trip rates for these trains are as follows: Parlor car seats, $13; sleeping car, $13; drawing room, $15 per person (minimum of four persons); day coach, $7.50. A bus will be run to and from the New Haven Station and the Yale Bowl at an additional cost of $1 per person for the round trip...
Members of the Committee who are running the show, headed by Benedict Einarson, instructor of Classics, and President of the Club, explained yesterday why "The Birds" had been chosen. In the first place a Greek play is alternated with a Latin one, and this production has a minimum of long and difficult parts...
...With a minimum of fanfare he ordered two heaving lines, attached to huge hawsers, to be dropped to a rowboat almost infinitesimal beside the liner. This craft ferried the lines of the pier, where they were hauled in by stevedores to the rhythm of a modern chantey that fitted in with the scene of a mechanical smoke and steel. Finally, after the snapping and curling of the forward hawser, three frantic excursions by the rowboat, and the working of winches and propellors, the ship was made sung. Rolling like the master of an old sailing ship, in which school...