Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...club processors and distributors into line the Secretary could require each & every one to take out special operating licenses from the Department of Agriculture. A miller or packer or spinner who failed to do so was liable to be fined $1,000 for each day of his disobedience. The maximum fine on farmers who broke the Secretary's orders...
...last August and stamped upon him until he died were last week pardoned, set free. Dispatches also passed the censor in which Jews were described as being commonly beaten by Nazis with an instrument consisting of a steel spring tipped by a small lead ball. The effect: maximum flesh bruises without actually breaking a bone...
Soon after getting his first real grip on the company in November, Motormaker Cord reduced operating expenses $600,000 a year, chiefly by consolidating American Airways' overhauling points and by cutting executives' salaries to a $15,000 maximum. He began liquidating Avco-owned securities, thus realizing $5,000,000 which he husbanded in cash and Government bonds. Consolidating the offices in Chicago is also to save money...
...Portland has a maximum speed of 33 knots an hour and develops a maximum speed of 109,000 horsepower, more than three times as much as our latest battleships. It carries 52 officers and 720 men in the crew. Food is cooked by means of an oil range and the bakeshop are heated by electricity...
...vessel to bear the name,* the Macon is identical to her sister Akron in dimensions and general structure. Most important changes are invisible, e. g. saving of some 8,000 Ib. under the Akron's weight by improvement of engine mountings, electrical installations, gas cells; and increase of maximum speed to 74 knots (the Akron's is 70) by better propellers, better streamlining...