Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bravado gone, Gangster Diamond faced a maximum sentence of four years, a fine of $11,000. Presiding at his trial was U. S. Judge Richard Joseph Hopkins of Kansas, the militant Dry whose appointment in 1929 caused a political rumpus between Attorney General Mitchell and Senators Capper and Allen of that State (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929). After the verdict an investigator for the Diamond defense was seized in court, held by Judge Hopkins on charges of attempting to tamper prosecution witnesses...
...will go where Taiwan has already placed $14,000,000-to mountain-nestled Lake Jitsu-Getsu-Tan (Lake of the Moon and the Sun). There a large power plant is being built which will have a maximum capacity of 100,000-k.w. hours. Taiwan's output last year came to 155,000,000-k.w. hours...
...daily turnover of $75.000, an annual gross income of $27,000,000, or $270,000,000 for the ten years it has been in operation. The personal Capone fortune was reckoned at $20,000,000, although agents were only able to find direct evidence of a $260,000 maximum annual income on which he failed to pay taxes. By tapping wires Federal operatives also uncovered another little-known bit of information. Public Enemy Capone is known as "Snorkey" to his intimates...
...first act of the altruistic-but-wise men and King Carol last week was to decree that hereafter 10% shall be the maximum interest payable by any rural debtor in Rumania. Heretofore village loan sharks have bled many a hard-pressed farmer to economic death by loans at 60% plus...
That Capone's maximum annual income had not been found to exceed $260,000 (1925) was explained by the fact that the wily criminal conducts most of his business on a cash basis, used currency to purchase his $175,000 estate, $40,000 yacht...