Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years the maximum height for buildings in Boston was 125 feet above the street. Three years ago this was changed to 155 feet, and today we have a most unique law which does not restrict the height of a building provided its cubical contents do not exceed the area of the lot times 155. This represents the height of human ingenuity in determining how to solve traffic and light problems...
...News, Chicago Tribune,* San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor. President is the Tribune's Joseph Pierson, trustee for American Publishers Committee. Capitalization was set at $1,000,000, of which $116,000 was paid in. Stock may be purchased by subscribing news-purveyors, minimum $1,000, maximum $25,000. Stockholders are given rights to send news through the ten stations of the company soon to be erected...
...said not to be operating, if it had ever been formed. Also the brothers had apparently borrowed $404,-995 from their own bank. Thus while Clarke Bros, claimed assets of $5,852-377, the actual value of these assets was figured at a minimum of $640,000 and a maximum of $1,830,000. There are some 3,000 depositors, none of whom will receive anything for at least three months. Six depositors said their deposits had been accepted the day before the bank closed. Laymen who think that banks are banks all alike, wondered how the State Banking Department...
...time of the four great press associations?United, Associated, Universal, International?is allowed the privilege of the Senate floor. Chairman Moses of the Rules Committee, by way of punishment, ordered this privilege for the United Press suspended. Wisconsin's Senator La Follette, eager to press the issue to the maximum discomfort of Republican Conservatives, pointed out that the Senate rules granted no floor privileges to any pressmen. When Senator La Follette later saw Fraser Edwards of the Universal Service weaving industriously about the floor, he made a point of order against his presence. Vice President Curtis ruled Mr. Edwards...
...thing in particular was hoped for -to obtain pictures of the corona from two points where the eclipse would take place at times a half-hour apart. On this account stations were located, not only in Sumatra and the nearby Malay Peninsula where the eclipse had nearly its maximum duration, but also in the Philippines where the duration was considerably less. As it happened, the shorter duration in the Philippines was more than offset by better weather. In Sumatra there was clear weather for the necessary half-hour, but some of the expeditions on the Malay Peninsula failed entirely. There...