Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...first period of the encampment is "Yearling Deadbeat." With the first class absent in Virginia, the post and its traditions are in the hands of the new third class for three weeks. During this time work is cut down to a minimum, and the third class enjoys its new Liberty to the utmost. To it is even given the important task of "welcoming" the new plebes and preparing them for the long period of training ahead of them. All too soon the first class returns to take over the reins, and then the serious work of the summer begins...
...venture, invested under Couzens' name. He too invested-$900 savings, $100 borrowed from an aunt. Later Ford made him general manager. By 1914 he was drawing a $150,000-a-year salary, large dividends. The same year he advised, obtained Ford's $s-a-day minimum wage. In 1915 he quarreled with Ford's pacifism, resigned, sold his original $1,000 investment for a $30,000,000 check which for days he carried in his pocket, unbanked, to show friends. At that time he was Detroit's first Street Railway Commission chairman...
Some 800,000 acres of shale oil land in western Colorado, owned by all the U. S. people and said by the U. S. Geological Survey to contain 40 billion barrels of petroleum (value: $1 per barrel, minimum), loomed more and more clearly in the public prints last week as an interesting national possession, also as the focus of an alleged national scandal. Ralph S. Kelley, the Interior Department's field chief at Denver, last fortnight resigned his post, loudly protesting that Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur was not taking proper care of all the people's great...
...first in 10 years, and one of the most important events of the decade for University professors, was effected last June, when the Corporation established the following regular scale of salaries for officers of instruction who are members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: professors: $8,000 minimum to $12,000 maximum; associate professors: $6,000 minimum to $7,000 maximum; assistant professors: $4,000 minimum to $5,500 maximum; instructors: maximum...
...dinner coats are purely educational. So, too, are red jackets, boots, saddles, and the paraphernalia of hunting. For the lack of these, many important citizens pass through life without acquiring horse manners, which approximate the minimum of indispensability...