Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge, by proclamation following the unanimous recommendation of the Tariff Commission, and in accordance with his power under the "flexible" provision of the Tariff Act, increased the duty on potassium chlorate from 1? to 2½ ? a pound (an increase of 50%, the maximum permitted...
...intended to remedy several detects in the prevailing system. First the internal composition of the Bureau prevents the break in continuity which at present takes place between the work of one year and that of the next. Second the increased personal supervision and the provision for readjustments guarantee a maximum of efficient service to the institutions to which men are sent. Third, the greater attention to the conduct of the opening meeting and the preparation of volunteers make an effort to utilize adequately the enthusiastic idealism that is the first and most vital force in the social activity...
...Everything has been sacrificed to obtain the maximum of seating ca- pacity at the minimum of cost. The architectural misfits are by no means confined to the West and South. We have them in the East...
...world production of petroleum in 1924 is estimated at 1,013,139,000 barrels. This is a new maximum record, since it squeezes ahead of the great 1923 annual output by 2,144,000 barrels. It is almost double the 1919 output of 544,885,000 barrels...
Said Mr. Mellon: "From the 68th Congress, there emerged the Revenue Act of 1924. This Act abolished some taxes, reduced some rates and followed in the main the recommendations of the Treasury as to administrative changes. In its failure to reduce the maximum surtax below 40% and in its increase of estate taxes to a maximum of 40%, the Revenue Act violated cer tain principles of taxation which I feel to be fundamental to any sound reform of the tax system. This may be tax reduction. It is not tax reform...