Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gross quota allowance of immigration for the new year is the same as for the last, 357,803, of which 20% or 71,000 is the maximum which may arrive in any one month. There was every prospect that the monthly immigration quotas of several nations, notably Italy and Greece, would be exhausted in a day or two, and several others within a week...
...year. In these circumstances a strike was possible-and the telephone girls struck. They had been working eight hours a day with rest periods, reducing the actual work period to seven hours and a half. The pay ranged from $9 a week for student operators to $22 a week maximum after five-and a half years' service. The operators demanded an hour's less work and pay ranging from $15 a week for student operators to $27 a week maximum at the end of four years' service...
...Provisional President of Africa, Marcus Garvey, convicted of using the mails to defraud in promotion of the Black Star Line, is in jail and appears likely to remain there for some time at least. Judge Mack of the Federal Court in New York gave him the maximum sentence-five years in jail and $1,000 fine. Mr. Garvey was also refused bail pending his appeal for a retrial...
Seven institutions with enrollments of over 4,000 show an average increase this year in salaries paid full professors of $2,000 and in salaries paid instructors of $750. Institutions with enrollments from 1,000 to 4,000 pay an average maximum to professors of $3,856 and to instructors...
...entirely successful. The Mummert monoplane is equipped with an ordinary two cylinder motorcycle engine, weighs only 500 pounds with fuel and pilot and has a wing spread of only 20 feet. With its gas tank filled with 19 gallons of fuel, it can cruise for 1,200 miles. The maximum speed is 80 miles per hour. Captain Brooke L. Pierson, an Air Mai pilot, has put the plane through a number of minor " stunts...