Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Linotype machines cast type slugs of 30 ems maximum length, hence "30" means the end of the line...
...Voted (190 to 149) to raise the maximum inheritance tax (on estates of more than $10,000,000) from 20% at present and 40% in the bill to 45%. Where a million-dollar estate pays $48,000 today, it would pay $126,000 under the new rates. Sponsors of this increased estate tax predicted it would bring in $80,000,000 additional revenue next year, $500,000,000 eventually. Secretary Mills promptly objected that these estimates were based on the "grossly inflated values" of 1929, that only about $20,000,000 more would reach the Treasury next year...
...Cambridge University thinks that the moon is not dead & cold, that radioactive substances keep it warm. †This August's will be the last total solar eclipse visible from the U. S. until 1979. Observers in New England and southeastern Canada will see totality for 1.5 min. Maximum possible duration of a total solar eclipse is 7.5 min. During a total eclipse the moon's shadow slides across the earth at from 1,060 to 5,000 m. p. h., depending upon its distance from the Equator and the sun's position...
...Warren, Ohio, the first of two men to be tried for kidnapping James Dejute Jr., 12, son of a Niles contractor (TIME, March 14), received the maximum punishment of life imprisonment. The trial took but four hours. A few days later, the other man was given from one to 20 years for harboring the kidnapped...
...strategy to substitute heavier levies elsewhere in the bill. The bill already raised the normal tax on net incomes (after deduction) of $8,000 or more from the present 5% to 6%. The House voted (121-to-81) to boost this levy to 7%. Where the bill upped the maximum surtax from 20% to 40% on over $100,000, the House voted (153-to-87) to invoke again the Wartime scale of surtaxes, boosting the rate beyond the $100,000 mark to a maximum levy of 65% on incomes over $5,000,000. Next by a vote...