Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the current British budget is based on estimated receipts of ?764,275,000, Mother Britain is now spending nearly one-sixth of her current tax revenue on seeing her needy through. ¶Voted with maximum grumbling from all parties a loan of 100,000,000 schillings ($14,000,000) to the Government of Austria. "Throwing good money after bad, that's what we're doing!" cried Conservative Sir Arthur Samuel, M. P., despite a firm reminder from Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, also Conservative, that the 100,000,000 schillings are only Britain's share...
...Reduction in the maximum tonnage of each type of surface war boat...
...Reduction of the maximum naval gun calibre...
...naval weapons, thus keeping Japan permanently inferior. Last week Admiral Nagano flatly refused to talk ratios, invited U. S. and British citizens to ponder the type of naval weapon Japan wants all Great Powers to scrap. Obviously if aircraft carriers, long-range submarines and large-surface ships of maximum cruising radius were abolished, Japan could neither strike at the West nor be struck at. She would be left safe and supreme in the East, able to defend herself and to operate at short range against Asiatics...
...neither a tragedy nor a comedy: it is a medley of dramatic ingenuities and pure drama which above all, never takes itself seriously It marks a distinct step away from pedantry and formalism, and towards the Anglo-Saxon ideal that the function of drams is to provide a maximum of entertainment, and a minimum of conscious instruction or dogmatic humor...