Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convicted poultrymen face a maximum sentence of one year in jail, $5,000 fine. One wily poultryman, hoping for a light sentence from Judge John Clark Knox, named his newborn son John Clark Irwin Rosenstein...
...advantages derived from this type of stack are two-fold: being self-supporting, it does not require heavy construction and permits the maximum possible cubic content of the library to be used for book storage. Also, being flexible, it eliminates waste space...
...been encouraged by the over-conservative financial reports of corporations. There have always been dishonest concerns which rig their books to show $1 per share profit when actually there was no profit. But suppose an ultra-conservative concern, by scaling its assets to minimum and carrying the liabilities at maximum, shows $1 per share profit when someone else thinks they might presumably have shown $2 per share profit; then the incentive to imagination and hence speculation is great and obvious...
...efficiency of international finance has seemingly reached its maximum. The clearance principle, the economizer of money, has reached its broadest ramifications. Just as the city clearing house facilitates commercial transactions, so the World Bank expedites the use of credit in its reserve holdings...
Though still bronchially ill, the 68-year-old defendant was able to walk into court to hear himself sentenced by Justice William Hitz. The jury had recommended mercy. Justice Hitz said firmly: "Under normal physical conditions {this case} would warrant and require the imposition of the maximum penalty [fine: $300,000 (thrice the bribe); three years imprisonment ]. . . . Because of the recommendation of the jury for mercy I will impose upon Mr. Fall a fine of $100,000 and imprisonment for one year...